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Survivor’s Tale
Daughter’s death pushes woman to push for end to domestic violence Vernetta Cockerham is one of the countless faces of domestic violence. A few days before Thanksgiving in 2002, her estranged husband, Richard Ellerbee, murdered her 17 year-old daughter, Candice, and battered Cockerham, a Winston-Salem native and mother of three, within inches of her […]