A Scientific Tragedy
Russ Rymer, a journalist who studied Genie’s case in the 1990s, described Genie on her 27th birthday: “A large, bumbling woman with a facial expression of cowlike incomprehension…her eyes focus poorly on the cake. Her dark hair has been hacked off raggedly at the top of her forehead, giving her the aspect of an asylum inmate.” Genie was clearly miserable…