When Keith first saw Sherry in her hospital bed, she explained: Her face was covered in “yellow to black bruises from repeated beatings, and the bridge of her nose was broken. Her emaciated 87-pound body was covered in multicolored bruises, severe burns, red rashes, and chain marks. She had her signature long blonde hair. She was branded and I could feel her scabs rising under my fingers.” She was thrown from the car with a chain around her waist and a bag over her head.
Shelley was “in great pain. I assure you that all the visions swirling around in your heads of what she looked like are not as graphic and gruesome as reality.” He said they had a “long road” ahead of them and asked for privacy.
But when Keith pulled the curtains around his wife’s hospital bed and saw her for the first time since her discovery, he said in The Perfect Wife, “In that moment, when she looked at me, I felt like she was lying.”
But when he “started to really look at her” and saw the extent of her injuries, he continued, “any doubt I had was gone.”
