Domestic-Violence Survivors Don't Just 'Snap'

On March 29, 2015, the Oxygen network aired an episode of Snapped, a true-crime series about women who commit murder. This particular episode profiled Mindy Dodd, a five-foot-tall, soft-spoken Tennessee woman who worked graveyard shifts at Walmart before she was accused of orchestrating her husband’s death.

Snapped, as the name suggests, is interested in how average women turn into killers, and Mindy’s story was a juicy one. The episode opened by explaining that from the outside, Mindy and her husband, Henry Dodd, looked like a normal blue-collar couple. They lived in a nice house in a quiet neighborhood of Smyrna with their two children. Then a shocking reveal: Before Henry was Mindy’s husband, he was her stepfather, raising her from the age of 6. When she was 18, she gave birth to a baby girl. It was Henry’s child, though no one but Henry, then 33, and Mindy knew that at the time. About seven years later, Henry announced to Mindy’s mother that he wanted a divorce — and was planning to marry her daughter. Mindy gave birth to her second child with her stepfather, now husband, a month after their wedding.

There’s a full moon in Gemini Saturday night — find out what that means for your weekly horoscope. It wasn’t all for nothing after all! Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s erotic thriller has found a new home on Hulu. More than 500 female gymnasts who were sexually abused by Larry Nassar have agreed to a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Naomie Harris says she was groped by a huge star at an audition and no one intervened. And this migrant-rescuing, award-spurning ship captain is incredible.

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