The Brief
- An attack survivor and Menlo Park police have a new lead in a 1983 attack and abduction
- Investigators are trying to determine if the son is now at a mental-health hospital outside Chicago.
- Police have sent evidence to be re-tested to identify the attacker.
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Ora Farmer is heartbroken and in anguish, 43 years after she was brutally attacked and her 4-year-old son was kidnapped from her Menlo Park apartment.
“I’m not sure why God still wanted me here, because to me, that should have been the end of me,” Farmer said Tuesday in an interview with KTVU, her voice breaking with emotion.
When they found me, the telephone cord was wrapped around my throat so tight, that they literally had to cut me to cut it off,” Farmer said.…