Copyright (c) 2007 Derek Clontz/4-Page Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
DARLA CUNNINGHAM cried out for help as a drooling, leering, lust-crazed rapist grabbed her in broad daylight and ripped at her dress. But as passersby shielded their eyes and turned away from the spectacle, an angel with rippling muscles and eyes of cold steel stopped the sex creep dead in his tracks – and twisted his head off.
And while cops continue to call the case “unsolved” – and actually profess to be looking for alleged rapist Karl Schiener’s murderer – eyewitnesses, including Miss Cunningham herself, have repeatedly told the press and police what they consider to be that gospel truth: The young woman was saved by an angel from Heaven.
“If it wasn’t an angel, what was it – a space alien with wings?” Miss Cunningham, 33, asked reporters during a press conference in Jerusalem, where she was attacked just days ago. “You people don’t believe anything – even when the ‘anything’ is God.
“That man was trying to rape me or even kill me in broad daylight and all I could see was his horrible, evil face and the backs of people who turned away rather than help me.
“But God didn’t turn his back – that’s the only reason I’m here today. God’s love is stronger than any evil. And God’s angels are love.”
The hellish drama unfolded almost in the heart of Jerusalem after Miss Cunningham slipped away from a tour group to “poke around a little” on her own.
It was dusk, with shadows playing tricks, when, hard reality in the form of a 6-foot, 4-inch psychopath and convicted sex offender grabbed her from behind.
Miss Cunningham and 32 eyewitnesses agree she cried out for help.
But as some passersby turned and walked or even ran away, and others stood at a comfortable distance watching the rape progress, an angel that by all accounts was male and muscular seemed to appear out of nowhere.
A full head taller than the alleged rapist, the 7-foot angel, eyewitnesses say, lifted the man off Miss Cunningham and held him about 12 to 14 inches off the sidewalk with one hand.
For an instant that seemed like an eternity, they said, the angel stared into the suspect’s eyes. He then took his free hand and twisted the suspect’s head off “like the top of a tube of toothpaste,” said one witness.
He then dropped it to the ground before spreading his enormous gray wings and vanishing like a puff of cigarette smoke in a stiff breeze.
“My life changed in that moment and I will never be the same,” Miss Cunningham told me exclusively. “From that moment on I became a soldier for the Lord.”
