I hoped that would hopefully divert him from doing anything.″ ″My only hope was to hide in the public eye. She said she sought publicity last year because she was afraid Minns had orchestrated the 1980 shooting. Smith walked nearly seven miles in the Honolulu Marathon and was featured on the CBS program ″60 Minutes.″ Petrofsky has helped paraplegics walk with computer-controlled devices that electrically stimulate their muscles. Jerrold Petrofsky at Wright State University. Smith said she came to Dayton as a volunteer research subject in the rehabilitation program of Dr. In an interview published Sunday in the Dayton Daily News, Ms. She says stories about her past, including her legal battle with millionaire Richard Minns over whether she was his wife or his mistress, could endanger her plans to help paraplegic children learn to walk. ″Everything I try to do keeps getting hurt because this story keeps coming up.″
″My God, how long do I have to keep paying for it?″ she said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday. The woman now known as Janni Smith says she was Barbra Piotrowski, a Houston socialite and former model, before the October 1980 shooting that left her paralyzed from the waist down. DAYTON, Ohio (AP) _ A paraplegic whose walk in a marathon made national news says she sought the publicity in a bid for safety from killers, but fears it may backfire.
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