Mary Bell

"Now that Mary Bell attained her goal as a New York model, she became obsessed for attention and recognition by everyone, subconsciously erasing images from her mind of the poor girl walking a mile to school on a snowy day, wearing second hand torn shoes."



Musa Shihadeh met Mary Bell at a Lebanese Diner in Detroit. She was 18, the abused daughter of a drunken preacher. Mr. Shihadeh was an international entrepreneur. His first marriage was no longer working, and Mary Bell seemed to fit the bill. The attraction was instantaneous. He afforded her the comfort of a life she never dreamed of. But the storybook romance was built on illusion and fantasy doomed for peril in the nightmare of schizophrenia and clinical paranoia.