At the bus station, she meets a man named Peter Slowik, who guides her to a local women's shelter. Rose arrives in a Midwestern city, disoriented and afraid. Once Norman realizes that Rose is gone, he resolves to hunt her down and kill her. Rose departs on a bus with their bank card. Rose realizes that she has passively suffered through Norman's abuse for fourteen years and that if she continues to put up with it, he will eventually kill her. She sees a drop of blood on the sheet that dripped from her nose the night before, when Norman had punched her in the face for spilling iced tea on him. Nine years later, Rose is making the bed.

The subsequent lawsuit and internal affairs investigation has made him even more volatile. He also has a violent temper and has been recently accused of assaulting and raping a black woman named Wendy Yarrow. Rose considers leaving Norman but dismisses the idea: Norman is a policeman, and is excellent at finding people.

Once he finally catches up to Rose, he attempts to strangle her and her new boyfriend, Bill Steiner.In 1985, Rose Daniels' husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to miscarry.

He murders a policeman guarding Rose to hide inside the patrol car, despite being a policeman himself.

He kills Rose's two friends at her new apartment.

Killing a man simply because the man was Jewish.

He interrogates a man who saw Rose by crushing his scrotum, before he fatally devoured him.

After Rose decides to leave him to avoid anymore of his abuse, he becomes determined to hunt her down and ' talk to her up close'.

He brutally assaulted and raped an African-American prostitute.

While Rose was four months pregnant, he punched her because he hated the book she was reading, causing her to miscarry.

Over 14 years, he makes Rose's life miserable by domestically abusing her whenever he felt like it such as biting her, punching her in the kidneys and sodomizing her with a tennis racket.He regularly abuses his power as a police officer.Norman is a racist and a misogynist, assaulting people simply for being other races or the opposite sex.While Norman is claimed to have a tragic past of having been sexually abused by his father that made him what he is, but the story leans on the idea it was all on Norman's mind to provide himself an excuse and that the abuse may have never actually even happened in the first place so has no real justification or reason for his crimes other than simple sadism.Visit here for more details: Norman Daniels's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.

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