Happy Mother’s Day - Brutal Edition
This is my first mother’s day without a mom.
That day comes for everyone, in this case far too soon. My mother Rosemary Johnson suffered and died from domestic violence over a lifetime. First beaten and abused by her husband, my father Alfred Johnson, for 40 years. From the beginning of their marriage in the mid 1980s, to almost the day he died in 2023. Then strangled and stabbed to death in a river of blood by my younger brother Devin Johnson in late 2025, finishing the job our father started.
My mother was a sweet and gentle woman who did not deserve this life or fate. She paid for her mistakes 100x over, literally in her own blood. Her death marks one of the most brutal murders in the history of Cape Coral, with consequences that will echo in our family tree for 100 years.
This mother’s day I want to remind you that there are many mothers like my mom: quietly getting beaten black, blue, and bloody by their husbands. It’s sick, revolting, and evi…
