![]() In the years after the attack, Vanessa also told A&E back in May that she suffered from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists. 'There's no fixing what he took from me,' Vanessa told the outlet while discussing the episode, entitled The Colorado Hammer Killer, which will air on July 11 on Investigation Discovery and Discovery+. However, Vanessa somehow made it out alive, and she was found unconscious by her grandmother the next morning, covered in blood and clinging to life. ![]() The then-toddler narrowly survived the gruesome assault - suffering from a shattered jaw and skull, as well as broken bones in both of her arms and legs. Vanessa's dad Bruce tried to fight him off, but Ewing ultimately bashed his head in with a hammer, before slashing his throat with a knife, which he had taken from their kitchen. On January 16, 1984, a man named Alex Ewing, now 61, broke into the Bennett house through their unlocked garage. Now, she has opened up about the aftermath of the hideous incident in an upcoming episode of People Magazine Investigates, admitting that it affected her for years, resulting in her turning to drugs as a teen and attempting to take her own life at age 17. Vanessa Bennett, now 42, witnessed the horrifying deaths of her parents, Bruce, then 27, and Debra, then 26, as well as her older sister, Melissa, then seven, after a man broke into their Aurora, Colorado, home and bludgeoned them with a hammer in 1984. Published: 21:05 BST, 6 July 2022 | Updated: 22:54 BST, 6 July 2022Ī woman who watched her family get brutally murdered by a hammer-wielding stranger after he sexually assaulted her, her sister, and her mother when she was just three years old has spoken out about the harrowing attack.
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