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Alex Hanscom’s life changed forever on July 15, 1992.
The then two-year-old boy witnessed his mother Rachel Nickell being brutally stabbed 49 times during a trip to a park in London’s Wimbledon Common. The toddler was found clinging to the 23-year-old’s bloody body and later told her father, Andre Hanscom, how she saw a “bad guy” with a knife coming up from behind, according to Netflix’s new documentary, The Rachel Nickell Murder.
It took police more than a decade to solve the case, and serial rapist Robert Knapper pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2008.
Alex, now 36, has spoken out about how the tragedy affected the rest of his life.
“If you witnessed that level of evil when you were young, I think the illusion that your parents can protect you from harm, no matter how good of a job they do, is now shattered,” he said in the documentary.
“My father knew that I understood what happened and that my mother loved me and that she didn’t want to leave me,” Alex said. “So my dad and I didn’t talk about my mom. We didn’t talk about her past. But I was still angry that it had happened and that I couldn’t do anything to stop it.”
