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    The Untold Story: The One Who Got Away!
    The Untold Story: The One Who Got Away!
    The Untold Story: The One Who Got Away!
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    The Untold Story: The One Who Got Away!

    By Denise Winters

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    This book was written for all of the children who lost their mothers (literally) at the hands of Milwaukee's north side strangler, as well as the victims and their families who had to pick up such ugly pieces and try to move beyond the loss and pain.

    During my years of struggle, I tried to speak up and speak out about the terrible ordeal I suffered, but I felt voiceless because nobody would listen to me or take me seriously.

    I felt like (and I was often treated like) I was invisible. To many, I was just a crackhead prostitute. My credibility wasn't worth a wooden nickel to them, and I had no voice. This was exactly how I was treated! I was treated like a worthless nobody, but by the grace of God, I can now share my true story with everybody!

    This book is based on my true-life experiences in hopes of encouraging myself and others, to know that whatever you are going through, if you live, you can heal, if you heal you can grow, and if you grow, regardless of whatever experiences life may bring, you can be redeemed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLifeRich Publishing
    Release dateDec 13, 2022
    ISBN9781489745255
    The Untold Story: The One Who Got Away!
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    Denise Winters

    Ms. Denise Winters is a loving mother of five children. Four living and one deceased. She is also a loving grandmother and great grandmother. Denise Winters is retired and disabled. She is currently seeking to come out of retirement. She is working to establish a podcast and you tube channel. She is also seeking to become a published author. Ms. Denise Winters attended Tech College and studied to be a RN. She eventually dropped out and became a small business owner in partnership of Mac & Ball Transport. After 8 years of business, Mac & Ball Transport was dissolved. That is when she went into retirement. She then indulged herself in doing things she likes to do, such as going to the casino and playing Bingo. She also enjoys helping, assisting, and caring for other people to the best of her ability considering the fact that she is also disabled. She especially enjoys giving assistance and care for our elderly, handicap, and our youth. Ms. Denise Winters is telling her untold story, “The One That Got Away”. The purpose of writing this book is for understanding and closure for herself, and for the women who lost their lives and are now voiceless. It is also written in hopes of giving inspiration and encouragement. If you want to purchase additional copies of this book, or hire her for a speaking event, please contact her at: denisew inters52@ gmail.com.

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      The Untold Story - Denise Winters

      Copyright © 2022 Denise Winters.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by

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      brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      LifeRich Publishing

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      of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher,

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      ISBN: 978-1-4897-4524-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4897-4525-5 (e)

      LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 11/16/2022

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Childhood

      Preteens

      Adulthood

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      F IRST, I ACKNOWLEDGE GOD WHO made a way for me through all dangers seen and unseen. He saved my life. It is because of God that I survived to tell this story. I found the strength and hope to keep going, even when I fell, He made it possible to get back up, and move a little bit further.

      Second, to my cousin Danette who supported and encouraged me to go through all the steps to make this book a reality. She told me not to give up, and to not listen to all the negative people. She was like a cheer leader for me, especially at times that I thought life was too hard.

      Third, to my counselor who said that writing was good therapy and would help me heal. She was right, even though I’ve cried more tears than I could imagine, to get it done.

      Finally, my cousins Joel and Pastor Teresa who believed in me, supported, and helped me go through the process of editing and getting the book published.

      I dedicate this book to the children who lost their mothers by the hands of Milwaukee’s North- Side Strangler, and to the women that lost their lives. Their lives mattered too. They had children who loved them, mothers, and family. I valued their lives even though others didn’t care, because they were on drugs, they could’ve had a chance to turn their lives around if they had lived, but they didn’t get the chance.

      I acknowledge my children who shared a lot of ups and downs with me, especially my son who I lost in a tragic accident. My children were one of the main reasons I was determined to make it and turn my life around.

      I dedicate this book to every woman who is ready to rise-up and go forward.

      INTRODUCTION

      I ’M WRITING THIS BOOK BASED on my true-life experiences, in hopes of encouraging myself and others to know that whatever you’re going through, if we live, we can heal and grow from whatever experiences life may bring.

      In this book, I am laying down all my hurt, pain, anger, and offering apologies to the people I have hurt including relatives, and especially my children.

      I dedicate this book to all the children who lost their mothers (literally) at the hands of Milwaukee’s North Side Strangler, as well as the families who had to pick up such ugly pieces and go forward.

      During my years of struggle, I tried to speak up, but I felt voiceless because nobody would listen to me or take me seriously. I felt like I was invisible. I was just a crack head prostitute to them. My credibility wasn’t anything to them and I had no voice. And that was exactly how I was treated! I was treated like nobody! But deep down inside of me, I knew when it was all said and done, I was human. I had rights and knew who and what was done to me. I deserved justice just like any other person would want.

      I want to also dedicate this book to the women that lost their lives. Their lives mattered too. They had children who loved them, mothers, and family. It doesn’t matter if they were on drugs or not, they could’ve had a chance to turn their lives around and be productive citizens. But the strangler didn’t give them that chance.

      Through my story, I hope you see and feel my tragedy as well as my victory.

      CHILDHOOD

      I REMEMBER STAYING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER on my biological father’s side. My aunt on my biological father side told me that my grandmother asked my mom if she could raise me, and my mother allowed her to do so. I was too young to remember much, but my clear recollection starts at age five. The man who they said was my father would come over to my grandma’s house and just stare at me, then he would get up and walk right pass me.

      I would daydream at times, thinking one day he’d start coming over just for me, spending time with me, taking me places with him and giving me some real attention. However, I don’t remember him ever spending any time with me and that made me so sad - feeling unwanted and unloved, because I really didn’t get much love from my mother either. She didn’t give me the emotional things I needed, just the financial needs. So, I started my life with a big feeling of hurt – no love. I stayed in Chicago with my grandmother for almost two years and transitioned back to my mother’s home.

      When I was about seven, I remember being at my grandfather’s house on Cherry Street. My grandfather already had a large responsibility because my grandmother, my mother’s mom, left him with eleven children, five of them already grown and out the house. Six of them were still there so he had to feed us and their kids too. His wife left him for another man. One thing about my grandfather, he made sure every one of us children ate. We had pinto beans, black eyes peas, snap beans, and butter beans, all of it with cornbread. Beans, beans, beans but we got full, and I love my grandfather for that.

      Although it was a lot of us and we didn’t have much, my grandfather took care of us. I believe that was the time my mother went back to college to get her associate degree. When she went to college, we (my younger sister and I) spent more time at my granddad’s house. I used to hear members of the family say that my mother was the first of her siblings to go to college some seemed happy as I was for my mom, and some of her siblings seemed envious of my mom. Sometimes I felt like they had something against her because whenever they got mad at her for whatever reason they took it out on me and my sister.

      I remember when my uncle used to come in the house drunk, we would be sitting at the table, and he would be so mean to us. He would hit us, thump us on our head, knock us out our chairs and eat our food. My grandfather didn’t like him doing that to us. He started getting tired of my uncle hitting us and making us cry. One day he said he couldn’t take it no more, so he grabbed his ax, he had hidden in the basement, and chopped my uncle in his forehead. My uncle fell to his knees with his hands holding the blood that poured out. I believe that incident traumatized me. It was horrible.

      My grandfather left after that and went into hiding. Later, we found out he was staying in his shed for three days. The shed was hooked on to the basement. You could enter it from the inside of the house or from the outside. The shed is where my grandfather would snap off the neck of live chickens. He would buy them, pluck

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