Pamela Docken

Comedy. I live, eat and breath it. Click here to read all about it:

Star Tribune
(Minneapolis, MN); January 30, 2011; 680 words
Byline: TIM HARLOW; STAFF WRITER When Pam Docken shut down the

Oops*Dinner*Theatre in 2007, She vowed to never run a theater company again. But fans of her well-known, light-hearted, slapstick-filled ,musical comedies where the driving force in her return....

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I am also a survivor of abuse and have a story to tell. My mother's family was abusive physically, emotionally, sexually, psychologically. Some were abusive to the point of murder. Not only murder, but police corruption as well. Both a book " A Death in White Bear Lake" and a movie were produced about my notorious evil aunt, who was also my god mother. The book, written by award winning Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Barry Siegel masterfully depicted the true-crime tale of the murder of a child by his adoptive mother and the resolution of the case 27 years later. In 1980 Jerry Sherwood, who had given her first child up for adoption, searched for him only to discover that Dennis had died at age three in 1965 under mysterious circumstances. Her accusations prodded the town of White Bear Lake Minn, which had already suspected adoptive mother Lois Jurgens of killing the child, into action. The resultant trial, a landmark case, established the legal principle that circumstantial evidence is sufficient to convict in a child-abuse case, and served to reinforce the now commonly accepted contention that those abused as children frequently become child abusers themselves. Help me break the chain of abuse for so many who can't speak for themselves.