Overview
- Holly Dunn describes the 1997 attack near railroad tracks in Lexington, Kentucky, in which her boyfriend Chris Maier was killed and she was raped, stabbed and left for dead.
- She suffered severe injuries, including a fractured jaw and broken eye socket, and later spoke of survivor’s guilt after missing Maier’s funeral while hospitalized.
- Investigators initially stalled without a national DNA database, then linked the crimes to Angel Maturino Resendiz after DNA from Dr. Claudia Benton’s 1998 murder in Houston matched.
- A nationwide manhunt followed, aided by America’s Most Wanted, and Resendiz surrendered to authorities in July 1999.
- Dunn testified as a key witness; Resendiz was convicted of capital murder in 2000, executed in 2006, and confessed to additional killings, bringing his known victims to at least 15 across six states.