Although gravely hurt from numerous injuries, Jentz managed to go for help. Both she and Weiss eventually recovered, but only after many months of extensive medical treatment.

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Upon returning to the scene of the crime some fifteen years later, Jentz learned that residents of the small nearby town of Redmond had almost immediately suspected a cowboy, then seventeen, who remained in the community, piling up a long criminal record for assaults, including domestic violence. No charges were ever filed against him for the attack, however, and the three-year statute of limitations on attempted murder that was the law in Oregon at the time has long since expired.

Jentz stated that she hoped that readers would not just focus on the story of the horrifically brutal crime but also think about "getting below the surface of why it happened."

"We need to teach men that it's unmanly to beat women," she stated. "We have to shift the paradigm."

Deitch and Jentz, life partners since the early 1990s, reside in Los Angeles.

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