A True Crime by Yvonne Mason
Chapter One
They walk among us. The narcissistic sociopaths who prey on the innocent, the weak and the vulnerable. They prey on those who have low self-esteem, who are seeking someone to love who will love them without condition. The narcissistic sociopath seeks out those they can control with intimidation, physical violence and mental abuse. They weave their web of deceit and extreme cruelty around their victims like a spider weaves a web making it stronger and stronger as the web gets larger and larger until their victim is totally dependent upon their captor. What is normal for this spider has become chaos for the fly ergo the abused.
The beginning of the story is always the same. The abusers’ wine, dine, charm and with cunning draw the victim into a relationship while they slowly and methodically destroy the victim. It is a slow dance of abuse that the victim never sees coming until they are so deep in the relationship they cannot escape. The victim has become so dependent on their abuser; she has no place else to turn. Such is the story of Cindy Lorraine Ricketts. A beautiful young woman stuck down at the age of 33 years old at the hands of her husband, Donald Glen Richardson.
Cynthia Lorraine, known to family and friends as Cindy was the youngest child of seven children born to Ted and Mabel Holmberg Ricketts on March 2,1957. She grew up in and around the Columbia Gorge area of Oregon and Washington living on both sides of the river at various times in her life.
Cindy’s life was filled with family, school and the usual mischief that children partake in as they are finding their way in life. She was a protector of all innocent things, including stray animals. Her life would have remained uneventful had she not met and married Donald Glen Richardson.
So, it is at this point, I begin her story. Her favorite color, where she went to school, etc. is not what caused her murder. While they are part of her life, they are not part of this story. Cindy’s story is about the lack of justice she received at the hands of the criminal justice system in the state of Oregon and the consequences of that lack of justice. Cindy’s story is about the abuse she received at the hands of her husband and the continued abuse her family received after her murder by her husband. Cindy’s story is just one of the millions of stories about women who are abused at the hands of a partner every day. Cindy’s story is written so that others may learn and understand that when someone is murdered due to abuse, sometimes that abuse continues for the family because of the lack of justice.
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