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MR. DECAMP: Denise.
 
THE CLERK: Maam, would you state your full name and spell your last name, please?
 
THE WITNESS: Denise Ann Bonacci, B-o-n-a-c-c-i.
 
THE CLERK: Denise Ann Bonacci, B-o-n-a-c-c-i.
 
DENISE A. BONACCI
 
CalIed as a witness, being duly sworn, testified as follows:
 
THE COURT: Sorry, didn't understand your first name.
 
THE WITNESS: Denise.
 
THE COURT: D-e-n-i-s-e?
 
THE WITNESS: Uh-huh.
 
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. DECAMP:
 
Q. Denise, do you know Paul Bonacci?
 
A. Very well.
 
Q. How long have you known him?
 
A. Since July 1st, 1995.
 
Q. So you've known him about three and a half years?
 
A. Yeah.
 
Q. Not very good at math. Anyway. How did you get to know Paul Bonacci?
 
A. We have a mutual friend, Wes Offenbaugh, and Wes was trying to help me out counseling wise. And he didn't know what to do with me. So he said that Paul and I shared a lot of our same backgrounds, not with the Franklin case or nothing, but I mean I was abused as a kid too. He thought maybe Paul would be able to help me out, you know, somebody that would be able to understand what I was going through. And anyway, he sent him in to my work place. And the way he was, Wes described this he would be like in 40s and old and ugly. He comes in, he was 27 and gorgeous. So --so we hit it off immediately. And the next time I saw him was August 19th, we started dating two weeks later.
 
Q. You ended up getting married?
 
A. Yeah.
 
Q. How has, how has this whole Franklin thing impacted you or your family?
 
A. It has quite a bit. Growing up, you know, I was really shy and everything. And, but I had a lot of friends. And, you know, I wasn't ever scared, you know, for my safety or anything. Andthen after meeting Paul, I thought that Wes was joking on a lot of the stuff, then Paul gave me a copy of The Franklin Cover-Up book and then the one by the grand jury, A Carefully Crafted Hoax, and I went through those. And anyways, I read them. I was asking Paul a bunch of questions, then he took me down to go see Reverend Morrow and talk to him for a while. And Reverend Morrow explained a lot of this stuff that Paul did talk to me about. But it's, Paul's abuse has really caused a lot of -- cause I had boyfriends before. You know, but nothing like Paul before. Because I didn't know MPD even existed, I never heard of it before.
 
Q. Join the club.
 
A. Yeah. But, you know, we've spent a lot of time together. And first time I noticed that something was different with Paul I didn't even know that he had MPD. Because nobody had mentioned it to me. And we were at Hy-Vee at the deli and we were waiting in line to pay for it. And it just, I was talking to Paul and everything that I was saying -- well, I thought it was Paul, and he just, he looked different. And we had been dating for, I mean, we were dating for a couple of months. You know. And it was, he looked totally different. Everything I talked to him about, you know, he acted like he had no idea what I was talking about. And he gave me gifts that later on, you know, I thought they were really odd gifts, you know. And later on I, you know, I asked him, you know, where in the world he got it. Because, you know, like jewelry box, things like that, you know. And he had no idea where he got them from. And I'm like, you know, he's like, you know -- sometimes he'd be over at my house and we were engaged and, you know, he'd be talking with my family and stuff, you know. And he'd look at stuff, says where did you get that? I says, well, you gave it to me. No, I didn't. He was serious, he didn't know that he gave me these gifts. But anyway, we talked about it and I found out about the MPD. But he was always telling me that he was totally integrated and I thought he was. And the 20-20 interview last spring or last summer, whenever it was. And anyways, I thought he was totally healed. And they started doing the interview, Karen Bums and then her assistant Hillary, I don't remember her last name. But Paul had just switched over to Wesley. And that was my first --
 
Q. Then it shocked you?
 
A. Yeah. Quite a bit. I told the 20 --
Q. Was it clear it was a totally different person?
 


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THE COURT: Okay. He's protective of you?
 
THE WITNESS: Very protective.
 
THE COURT: Okay. Is he the only one?
 
THE WITNESS: The only one that I'm aware of.
 
THE COURT: Okay.
 
THE WITNESS: III leave it at that, because I never want to transcend --
THE COURT: Mike, which is no longer.
 
THE WITNESS: As far as I know I believe he's gone but -- it would be hard to say.
 
THE COURT: I understand. Are you under any treatment now?
 
THE WITNESS: No, sir.
 
THE COURT: How long have you been without treatment?
 
THE WITNESS: When I first got out of prison I was living with Reverend Morrow in Lincoln we worked out most of the stuff down there and stuff going through memories. And all of that stuff. And actually for treatment and stuff, I've contacted several psychiatrists they said unless you're really, unless you really suffer from like where you're losing time, maybe doing things that are wrong and stuff, you know, the best thing to do is just try and work through them yourself. And that's probably the best way. It's like, cause I go through years of treatment and stuff and I don't believe that that would do anything good and stuff. Main thing that's helped me the most is probably my faith. And getting involved in not just being a religious person, I'm not religious at all. Simply a Christian who's trying to do what's right and live my life respect, respectfully and stuff. And look out for other people and protect them.
 
THE COURT: All right. I don't have any further questions. Anything else, Mr. DeCamp?
 
MR. DECAMP: No further questions, Your Honor.
 
THE COURT: You may stand down, sir.
 


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THE COURT: Okay. And or getting some other young person to be a sexual partner?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes.
 
THE COURT: Do you have any estimates of how often you participated as the sexual partner of one of these persons that he wanted to get some kind of control over?
 
THE WITNESS: Kind of hard to say. Because there were times when there would be four or five in a night. And I hardly knew, I didn't know most of them. But on probably a couple of thousand times. Sometimes --
 
THE COURT: Couple thousand times altogether?
 
THE WITNESS: Yeah. Sometimes dozens of times with the same person.
 
THE COURT: How did you finally get out of that practice?
 
THE WITNESS: In 86 when I went to the police I kind of broke away most of it there. By the fact that they, I, by the fact that they knew that I was talking about it. Also I kind of grew out of it because I was getting older. I mean, up until I was probably 17 or 18 years old I, I guess I was a late bloomer, I didn't go through puberty till I was about 18 or 19 years old. I looked like I was probably 13 or 14. And even in my yearbook pictures from as a junior in high school it looks like I'm probably about 13 years old. That's why they were able to use me for so long.
 
THE COURT: How does the fact of your remaining multiple personality disorder affect you now?
 
THE WITNESS: It affects me a lot. Especially like in work. It's sometimes hard for me to keep a job now. It's affecting my relationship with my wife big time. Because there are times when I know she's talked to other different personalities and stuff because, you know, it's affected me, I can go off the handle a little bit easy. I mean, I'm not really too physically violent but I'm more verbally violent. I don I know why I do things I do. I find that some of the things that used to be very easy for me do and stuff are difficult. And then the worst part is probably the flashbacks. Because there's still times and stuff where there's stuff I don't even know happened that will flood my mind and I can't get it off my mind for sometimes weeks at a time. III just kind of go into a moping period where it's like I'm trying to, I'm just working through it trying to see if I can even believe it myself. Because some of the things seem so outrageous. But I've come, I've come to figure out how to tell what's real, you know, the real memories from things that were placed in there on purpose to try and discredit me.
 
THE COURT: During your waking hours, when you're not asleep, do you find yourself sometimes moving into different personalities whether you're at work or otherwise?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes, I do.
 
THE COURT: Are those any of the personalities, I think I heard you say a while ago that now you think you don't experience personalities that are destructive to you, is that a fair statement?
 
THE WITNESS: No, I don't. The only person that I know that I have left is Wesley. He's not destructive at all. He's more of a making sure that nothing ever goes wrong.
 


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Q. You're working now?
 
A. I'm working now. I'm working part-time right now but I will be working full time this summer. Finally got a job that's going to be worth something.
 
Q. And you're married now?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. How long have you been married?
 
A. About two and a half years.
 
Q. You asked me not to ask you any other family questions?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. Why?
 
A. Safety of my family.
 
MR. DECAMP: I have no further questions, Your Honor.
 
THE COURT: Mr. Bonacci, I have a question or two I'd like to ask you. Did Mr. King, Lawrence E. King, ever sexually abuse you?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes, he did on numerous occasions.
 
THE COURT: How many times would you estimate?
 
THE WITNESS: Probably a couple of hundred. Within all of the different personalities.
 
THE COURT: How old were you at that time?
 
THE WITNESS: Beginning at the time I was approximately 12 or 13 years old. Up until I was about 17 or 18.
 
THE COURT: As I understand it the three doctors who examined you concluded that your multiple personality disorder was a result of sexual abuses entirely or with other things, what was your understanding?
 
THE WITNESS: According to the psychiatrist, the stuff, it was almost exclusively due to the sexual abuse and also the extreme physical abuse that most of these people, most of the guys had abused me with. They, like putting guns up to my head. Had guns put in my mouth. I had, on several occasions Larry King sent out boys to, or not boys, men, to jump me.
 
THE COURT: You mean by that that he, Mr. King, would
 
THE WITNESS: He would order them.
 
THE COURT: -- direct the other men to do that or the other persons to do that?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes, he would direct them to do that. Sometimes, couple of times I was taken to where he was at and he had them pretty well beat the tar out of me from about the waist down so nobody would, my family or nothing would see any marks on my face or anything. He had, there was like two or three guys that he had kick and beating me pretty good. And one time I had my fingers broken by a kid that, a guy they called Larry The Kid. And my family knows about that. But they thought I had a bike accident. But the doctors kept trying to push on it because, push me about it because of the way they were broken. They said there's no way I could have broken it by flipping over the handle bars of my bike, it looked like somebody had grabbed the knuckles and busted them and twisted them. And that was done by, right in front of him.
 
THE COURT: Okay. What other physical injuries can you remember having?
 
THE WITNESS: Excuse me?
 
THE COURT: How many, what other physical injuries can you remember receiving?
 
THE WITNESS: I can remember them burning me with hot instruments. Placing stuff inside of me.
 
THE COURT: Doing what?
 
THE WITNESS: Placing objects inside of me.
 
THE COURT: Objects inside you?
 
THE WITNESS: Such as like a, it was a, I don't know exactly what it was, almost like what I call a cattle prod or something. But it would be put inside then they'd shock me inside of my --
 
THE COURT: Anus?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes. And they would
 
THE COURT: You mean electrically heated?
 
THE WITNESS: It was like they put it in then they would have a button he would push and it would shock me. I hadn't told anybody about that because I've been working through a lot of this getting everything from all the personalities put together, which has taken years. Trying to make it, make any sense.
 
THE COURT: And were those things, the burning and the putting of these hot irons in you, done by Larry King or at his direction?
 
THE WITNESS: At his direction.
 
THE COURT: Did you hear him give the directions?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes.
 
THE COURT: How many times did that kind of thing happen?
 
THE WITNESS: That happened about three or four times. One time I had threatened to, we were in a different -- we weren't in Omaha, we were in, I believe it was California, I threatened to go to the police there.
 
THE COURT: You threatened to what?
 
THE WITNESS: I threatened to go to police in California, thought maybe they would listen whereas in Omaha they were under in his pocket book or something. And I couldn't get out of the car. One other thing he had ordered was we were on an airplane and he had me, or he had me hung out of the airplane with a rope by my ankles.
 
THE COURT: At his direction?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes. That was on the same trip that I threatened to go to the police. He was doing everything he could to make sure that I was quiet about the activities that had taken place.
 
THE COURT: What was your primary duty, according to directions you received from Mr. King?
 
THE WITNESS: It depended on what he needed. A lot, most of the time it was to compromise politicians so he could get whatever he wanted from them. Or whatever somebody, he wanted or that somebody he knew wanted to get. If they wanted to get something passed through the legislature or whatever, he would put some people that were against it in a compromising position. By using us boys and girls.
 
THE COURT: Was this by your being the sexual partner of that person?
 
THE WITNESS: Yes.


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Q. In fact, that's part of the agreement, wasn't it, that I agreed to represent you, that you would donate anything you won or most of what you won to a fund to help kids in your situation?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. Or abused kids?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. You understand you signed that, didn't you?
 
A. Yes, I did. Because that's, I never, it was never about money for me, it was about the fact that I wanted to get the truth out. I knew the only way I ever get the truth out is try to get into court. And even when my perjury case came up and they dismissed it, everybody else seemed to be happy for me. But I was, that messed me up because I never got my day in court. I never got a chance to prove that I was telling the truth. And they finally, if I would have gotten that chance and stuff, they knew they had no, the prosecution knew they had no case. They could not get one person to come to court and say the terrible things they got people to say about Alisha. She had too many people that knew her that didn't like her. But me 1, 1 made friends everywhere I went. And the fact that I brought the case, brought this stuff up three years before I ever got arrested.
 
Q. Let me hit on that. One moment. You put into writing your whole story on this, as I recall, before you ever saw a psychiatrist, is that correct?
 
A. Yes, I did.
 
Q. You gave it without ever being under hypnosis?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. You were hypnotized by the police or the court's psychiatrist after you had told this story, is that correct?
 
A. Yes. It was the police who had Dr. Mead hypnotize me, took me to St. Joe's, the police are the ones that took me to St. Joe's, they're the ones that had the hypnosis planned. It wasn't my choice. I mean, I agreed to it only because I felt that it would probably help me to straighten out some things and stuff. And that hypnosis, to state for the record, only dealt with one person. And one person alone. It had nothing to do with anybody but Peter Citron. He was the only one brought up during this hypnosis at all. It had nothing to do with Larry King, Alan Baer, the police, any priest or anything, had nothing to do with anybody but Peter Citron.
 
Q. And the things in the petition, that we alleged and that you've read repeatedly and you wrote and told us in effect about Peter Citron, they're all true?
 
A. Yes, they are.
 
Q. Peter Citron went to prison, you know, of course, for molesting youth?
 
A. Went to prison after Id already been talking about him doing that stuff to me. And I never had, of all the people who abused me he's the only person I really never, never ended up getting any anger or animosity toward. Because he was, I guess if you could talk about abuse, he was one of the nicest. Of all the people who abused me. He didn't use threats of killing me and wiping me out or everything, continually having me end up like I did a suicide by overdose or pushed out a window or shot to the head.
 
Q. So he was a good abuser?
 
A. He, cant say good abuser, but he didn't, he didn't result, he didn't lower himself to threatening my life like mainly everybody else. Especially Larry King. Who I knew had the money to do it.
 
Q. And Peter Citron and his activities with you were done for his own pleasure rather than ordering you like Larry King did to do this for others, is that correct?
 
A. Yes.
 
Q. Paul, my final question, have I in any way told you what to say here today?
 
A. No.
 
Q. Have I in any way pressured you, coerced you, begged you, told you, suggested anything?
 
A. No.
 
Q. And is everything you're telling us today the truth?
 
A. Absolutely, yes.
 
Q. You realize that people, Alisha Owen for example, went to prison for saying essentially the same things you've said here today?
 
A. Yes, I do.
 
Q. You're still claiming that these are true?
 
A. Yes, I do.
 
Q. Is there anything you want to correct at all that you've said?
 
A. Nothing I want to correct. But there's some other stuff about, like even my relation with my wife and stuff is affected by this because I'm afraid to open up to her. And the fact that I feel like I'm not even a human being any more because, because going to prison and stuff, all my rights been stripped to me just about. And it's, and knowing that none of this, the fact that I would have never gone to prison, I mean, everything my name and my family run through the mud, it would have never happened if it wasn't for the likes of Larry King and the rest of them. Who kept their thumb on me and every time I tried to break free from them they just threatened to kill me or kill my family. It got to the point where it didn't matter about me any more, it's like I've always been more concerned about my family. You know, it's like I know if I die I'm going to heaven so, you know, it don't matter to me. But it's like my family means more to me than anything.


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