When state troopers arrive at Lauret Savoy’s home, just after midnight, they find the acclaimed author lying in a pool of blood. She had been severely beaten. By Savoy’s side is her friend of 14 years and colleague at Mount Holyoke College, art professor Rie Hachiyanagi. It was Hachiyanagi who called 911. 

Savoy tells the police she can't offer any information on the person who attacked her. The professor is rushed to a local hospital with severe blunt force trauma. She has multiple broken bones and fractures in her face, numerous cuts, and puncture wounds and there was evidence that the assailant had tried to gouge out the Savoy's eyes. At the hospital,   Lauret Savoy tells police, she lied, out of fear. Her attacker was her long time friend, Rie Hachiyanagi.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

• Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags,” www.wendypatrickphd.com, 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego, Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHD
• Dr. Bethany Marshall - California Psychoanalyst, www.drbethanymarshall.com, Netflix show: 'Bling Empire'
• Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner, Tarrant County, Texas, Lecturer: The University of Texas and Texas A&M, Affiliated Faculty: University of Texas Medical Branch
• Lisa M. Dadio - Former New Haven Police Lieutenant, University of New Haven Senior Lecturer, Director University of New Haven Forensic Science Department "Center for Advanced Policing"
• Domenic Poli - News Reporter, The Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, Mass.), www.recorder.com, Facebook: "TheRecorderNewspaper," Twitter: @TheRecorderNews