The abuse started while I was pregnant with Richards daughter. At first, it was name calling but towards the end of my pregnancy he started running around.

And then he started hitting me.

I had plans to leave him after she was born, but when I got home from the hospital, I had to take it easy because I had a
C - Section. I needed time to heal, but Richard Hartman had other plans.

He started to rape me and I got pregnant with his son. While I was pregnant with his son, the beatings got worse. He would smother me with pillows. Things got worse as the days went on.

I got a restraining order and that just made Richard Hartman even madder! He knew I was going to try to leave him and he made it clear that if I tried to leave, he would kill me and my children.

I knew that he would follow through on his threat, so I put my two girls up for adoption and went on the run.

At this time, I was still pregnant with his son and I had to stay safe to make sure he was born.

After my son was born on July 2nd, I signed papers for his adoption as well. At this time Richard Hartman was in jail for fondling a 12 year-old girl.

He was not in jail for long before he made bail. When Richard Hartman got out, he came looking for me.

One day, he caught me and put a knife to my throat and was going to kill me. A man saw what Richard was doing to me and jumped Richard from behind pulling him off of me.

The police were called and they let Richard Hartman go and told me to go down to the police department and press charges.

I went over to my sister's Pat's  House to see if she would go to the police department with me. In the meantime, Richard Hartman ran into my sister Diane and pinned her against a building and told her that he had killed me in an alley and that she was next. Then he let her go.

My sister started crying because she thought I was dead.
She started looking through the alleys for my body, and when she got next to my Sister Pats house we saw her and yelled to her.

My sister then told us what Rick did to her and I told her that I was going down to the police department . She came with us and we told the police our story.

Unfortunately, the police would not let my sister Diane sign a complaint but they advised me that I could sign one and could get a restraining order.

All that did was make Richard Hartman even madder. After Richard was served he went looking for me, but could not find me.

Unfortunately, he found my sister Diane, at my mother's house. Richard asked my sister were I was but she wouldn't tell him so he killed her by stabbing her over a hundred times. Then he waited to see if my mom or I would show up at the house .

When we didn't show up, Richard left the house and went to the club two buildings down bragging how he killed one and had two more to go.

Now Richard Hartman is getting out of Concord State Prison and has made it clear when he gets out that "He is going to kill me my husband."

Last November I got a domestic violence order against Richard Hartman and he had to show up for the court hearing.

Our youngest daughter was there with me, and yes, I found all three of my children two years ago. That is why she was with me that day. She needed to face her father and ask him why?

Richard then made a statement to her that "one way or another, we will be a family again."

This is why I am trying to get this bill called the Diane Lemire Victims Rights Bill into law. This bill will make it so all convicted murderers will have to register and it would be part of their parole to do so.

I am finding out that Richard has more rights than I do! He knows where I live but I don't have right to know where he lives.

Now to top it off, his Family moved from Manchester NH to Berlin NH after they found out we moved here.

So my bill is to help all survivors that have lost someone and it will let the families know that their loved ones' deaths was not in vain.