Behind Closed Doors

In 1950s Gassaway, West Virginia, Evelyn Parsons appeared to be the ideal housewife, cherished in her church community while her husband Frank, a deacon and state Department of Transportation supervisor, supported their comfortable life with an immaculate home and two daughters. Behind the facade, however, Frank ruled with an iron fist. He controlled Evelyn by threatening to have her institutionalized at Weston State Hospital and routinely violated her through marital rape. Small acts of de...