ahead of the series' Oct. 10 premiere. "It's like a psychological thriller, legal drama and Greek tragedy, all rolled into one."
But George's attorney would maintain that Eileen was suggestible and that outside influences had helped her paint a compelling but imagined version of events from 1969.During a preliminary hearing in May 1990, Eileen testified that she remembered riding in her dad's Volkswagen van when she spotted Susan—"Suzie," as she called her as a child—and asked him if they could pick her up.
"I think I did something that caused Susan to look up at me," Eileen said. After seeing him hit her twice, "I closed my eyes. I think I turned away." Horngrad suggested she was influenced by her husband, the one who had called police in the first place—and who, Eileen admitted, wanted to keep some of the money she was being offered to sell the rights to her story, while she preferred to give it away to charity. The lawyer also floated the possibility that her purported memories had surfaced while she was hypnotized in therapy, knowing California courts didn't allow testimony derived from hypnosis.
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