Beyond the Headlines by R. G. Belsky

Author:R. G. Belsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

And so I was sitting there alone in my apartment when an old Laurie Bateman movie came on one of the cable channels.

It was one of the best ones she’d made. She didn’t make a lot of good movies, but this one was worthwhile. She played a “working girl” kind of real estate broker who falls in love with a man she’s selling a house to or something like that. I wasn’t paying that much attention to the plot.

It got me to thinking about Laurie Bateman again though.

For no particular reason, I went over to my computer and began looking up other movies she’d done. I hadn’t seen a lot of them, and I hadn’t missed much. They weren’t exactly Oscar contenders. But I clicked on a couple of YouTube segments from them to get a feel for what they were about.

There was one where she was being stalked by a serial killer. Another where she and a group of other women were trapped in a haunted house. And even a few beach pictures—which had more soft porn shots than story line—where she frolicked around in a revealing string bikini.

I was just about to stop when I came across another movie she’d made. It was called Victim of Love. This one had hardly been seen by anyone. It was made a long time ago, and seemed to have gone directly to video. Laurie Bateman was very young; it must have been one of her first movies. I figured I’d give it a quick scan and be done with this. But then something on the screen suddenly caught my attention.

Laurie Bateman played the part of a young wife in an abusive marriage who fought back against her husband in self-defense during one of the attacks.

The climax of the movie featured an emotional scene where she was on trial for his murder. I watched as she delivered her lines from the witness stand.

“I couldn’t fight back because he was so much stronger than me. Afterward, he would always apologize, tell me he loved me, and promise it would never happen again. But it did, over and over. Yes, I hated my husband and I hated everything he’d done to me. But I didn’t kill him. I had plenty of reasons to want him dead. But so did a lot of other people. I’m innocent. I’m not a murderer! You have to believe me!”

I was stunned at what I was seeing and hearing.

I went back and watched it again.

And again a few more times after that.

It was almost word for word what she’d said in the courtroom during her real-life hearing that day. I found a few other instances where she had said something similar to what she’d said in the courtroom that day. Not exactly the same. But close enough so that it seemed extremely unlikely that it could be simply chance or coincidence.

I stared at the now frozen image of Laurie Bateman on my computer screen for a long time.

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