Met the End

<p> </p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>Met the End</em></strong><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)></em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a </strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>true-crime survival memoir</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>explores the life and death of John Powell first known </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>victim</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of American serial killer Donald Harvey through the eyes of Powell's daughter Holly Brians Ragusa. When a motorcycle accident in 1986 left Powell in a coma the nightmare for Brians Ragusa and her family had scarcely begun: Harvey a nurse's aid was poisoning him with cyanide and when Powell died an </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>investigation revealed</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> dozens of similar crimes. For Brians </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Ragusa fifteen years old at the time the incident had </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>profound mental and emotional consequences</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. She struggled for decades to reconcile childhood memories of her Dad against the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>sensational publicity</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> surrounding his murder. Then in 2017 the national spotlight returned to Harvey's case when a fellow prison inmate beat him to death. Rekindled </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>trauma</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> from the news coverage drove Brians Ragusa to finally tell her father's story. Through research interviews and introspection Brians Ragusa faces the tragedy of her family's past and finds reclamation.  </span></p>