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The Road Out of Hell

Sanford Clark and the true story of the Wineville murders.

Written by Jason Zasky   Filed under History

What kind of emotional and physical scars did Clark suffer?
He carried a sense of despair and survivor’s guilt for the rest of his life. He wasn’t a macho guy who could put it all behind him. There’s a picture of him in the book that shows the expression he would get on his face when he would get lost in the memories.

As for physical scars, his rectum was so damaged by the invasive rapes with foreign objects that he never was right in that area for the rest of his life.

It’s amazing that Clark was able to live a normal, productive life after all he’d been through.
There is redemption in that he lived his life in an exemplary way. There’s not a happy ending, but a satisfied and successful ending in terms of showing that he had no part of any of Northcott’s mindset. What he wanted to do was to be a decent man and live right, but it cost him tremendously, right up until he was on his deathbed.

During the last conversation Jerry had with Clark, he said, “I love you dad.” Jerry said his father looked at him like he was confused and responded, “Why would you?” In his moment of despair he couldn’t appreciate how much he had done because he was so haunted.

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