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around Gene, trying to please him by lighting his pipe and bringing his slippers when he came home from work.
    Yet, all she felt from him was indifference. She said he made decisions without talking to her and never gave her enough money.
    Gene said he didn’t marry Karen for sex; if that’s what he wanted, he could have gotten it from any of the young women who wanted to hook up with a soldier. He married her because he loved her.
    He said Karen was in charge of the household budget, but he would pay the bills. That said, he acknowledged that he probably bought and sold a car without talking to her, but he noted they didn’t have much money to begin with.
    The prime emotion that Karen felt about being pregnant with Rodney was not joy, but fear. Fear of being trapped in a life she didn’t want. On top of that, she was worried she would get fat, so she put herself on a nine-hundred-calorie-a-day diet and was on the verge of being anorexic after Rodney was born in Nuremberg on March 26, 1960.
    Although Gene said he didn’t remember Karen taking birth control pills, she claimed she took them because she did not want to get pregnant a second time. But for some reason she couldn’t remember later, she said she was off the pill one weekend when Gene was playing in a football game out of town. She said Rodney had stayed home with his grandmother so she could join Gene in a hotel, where the couple got into another argument about sex. Karen later claimed that Gene raped her that night.
    Again, Karen claimed not to remember all the details, but she said he climbed on top of her, spread her legs, and held her shoulders and arms down so that she couldn’t move.
    “Basically, he forced me, and I was screaming, and I was crying, I remember that. I was pleading, ‘Please don’t, don’t,’” she recalled later. “Of course, in those days, that wasn’t considered rape if it was your husband.”
    Karen said she sensed that she got pregnant that night, and she was right. She never said a word of this alleged incident to anyone until years later. However, the damage had already been done because, according to Wayne’s defense team, Karen told him at some point that he was the product of rape.
    Only she and Gene know the truth about what happened that night, but when Gene recently learned of her accusation, he fervently denied it.
    “She’s fantasizing,” he said. “I probably didn’t want to have sex if she didn’t want to. I don’t want to be in bed with somebody who doesn’t want to.... ‘No’ means no and I respect that.”
    He said he didn’t remember arguing with Karen about sex—ever—and said they never stayed together in a hotel when he played football out of town.
    When he heard that Karen told Wayne he was the product of rape, he said, “That’s sad. That’s really sad.”
    Curiously, when Karen’s mother, Vera, gave an interview in Wayne’s court case, she, too, said that she had been raped as a young woman. She also said that when she was pregnant with Karen, she tried to have a miscarriage for fear of what her mother would do. However, it’s unknown whether she communicated that to Karen.

CHAPTER 2
    F EAR OF P UNISHMENT
    As a nineteen-year-old with two children, Karen felt so tied down that she feared she would never be able to get a divorce.
    She thought there had to be more to life than being young and sitting home alone for six or eight months while her husband was away on classified intelligence missions. It didn’t help matters that Karen didn’t get along with the other military wives. In fact, she didn’t like women in general—unless they were much older than she was.
    Given the circumstances under which Karen felt Wayne had been conceived, she was determined not to love her new baby.
    Nonetheless, she couldn’t help but notice that Wayne had the most perfect little body, completely symmetrical and not in the least bit chubby. Wayne was such a good baby that she couldn’t stop herself