Bound to Kill: What Lies in a Name?
7 Excerpts That Undermine the Popular Narrative on Delia Day
These are some excerpts from throughout Bound to Kill: The Untold Story of Delia Day that I thought were particularly interesting, and that you might enjoy while you wait on us to complete typesetting and get the ebook out.
These excerpts undercut the popular narrative that speculates that Susan was an innocent victim who killed Travis Anton in self defense. Instead, they paint a portrait of a duplicitous and potentially dangerous woman. Would your high school prom date openly muse that they fear you might kill again?
In the case of the report from her ex husband, who overall remained very emotionally generous towards her, defended her repeatedly in his remarks, and made multiple comments suggesting that he believed Travis had it coming, his comments nevertheless suggest that Susan may have been emotionally and verbally abusive in addition to being highly volatile and emotionally unstable.
Susan was incredibly paranoid, even during our conversations when she accused me of some sort of “ruse” in the process of trying to interview her for the artist biography I had intended to write about a woman who had her identity stolen by her abusive husband, which turned out to be extremely questionable as a premise.
From Chapter 18 - Bound to Kill: The Untold Story of Delia Day
Chapter 5 Excerpt
For the Delta State senior art exhibition Susan was displaying three of her first self-portraits: “Curtains,” “One Left,” and “Scarlett.” The photographs hung under picture lights on the wall behind her, each bordered with white mats set in black frames.
Susan claims that she came up with the name Delia Day based on a silent-film actress of the same name, but did not sign these first three works under the alias, and instead she recreated her original three pieces and signed them Delia Day a couple years later.