He took her, in her own car, and drove toward an abandoned house in Hampton Falls. Fortunately for O'Brien, the car got stuck in the snow before they arrived. She convinced her estranged husband to release her, but not until after a terrifying ordeal that lasted more than four hours. He pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal threatening with a gun, one count of kidnapping, one count of burglary and one count of witness tampering. I could have just gone on with my life, but remaining silent didn't feel right.
Women are dying, a third of women homicide victims die at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends.
I am speaking for those women. Deputy County Attorney Tom Reid said O'Brien's husband went there with the intention of killing her that day. Where he was taking her, she would not have been found for a long time. It was an old burned-out house in the middle of nowhere. Reid said the New Hampshire justice system is so sensitive to defendants' rights that the need for a victim's bill of rights quickly became apparent.