Joan Porco's Most Important Contribution To [Field]

Joan porco survived the attacks that murdered her husband, peter, and for which her son, christopher, 22, is now on trial. Porcos injuries, which prosecutors believe were inflicted by her son. Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty. The attack on joan had been devastatingher skull fractured, her left eye destroyed.

Even more astonishing was what she managed to do. Goshen an expert neurologist testified monday that it was extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that joan porco, as paramedics treated her, remembered the brutal ax attack that left her. Joan defended christopher all the way. Joans face was disfigured entirely after the fatal attack. And she had lost her husband. Inside the couples bedroom, a bloodied ax sat upon the floor. There were no fingerprints on the weapon and no one was in the home when they arrived. Someone had killed peter porco and had very nearly killed his wife, now it was up to the officers to find out who. First, though, they needed to get joan to a hospital. 15, 2004 night someone quietly entered her 36 brockley drive, delmar, home in the middle of the night.