UNSEALING THE CRIME SCENE: A Forensic Roadmap for Survivors of Child Psychological Abuse and Coercive Control

Dawn McCarty | English, 2026

Every crime scene tells a story. So does every survivor.

For forty-four years, Dawn McCarty lived within a carefully constructed reality designed to serve a perpetrator’s needs.

Abducted at age four, she became the victim of a multi-decade identity heist. While the Mormon "institutional narrative" provided the framework, her mother was the primary architect of the concealment, weaponizing religion to sanctify abuse and erase an origin story.

In Unsealing The Crime Scene, Drawing on criminology, behavioral threat assessment, cybersecurity, and lived experience, Dawn McCarty introduces the DARE Frameworks™, an investigative methodology that helps survivors document coercive control, organize evidence, and reclaim authorship of their own story. This forensic roadmap is for survivors who are ready to move beyond the disorientation of the fog and toward the clarity of a documented, evidence-based timeline.

Stop performing recovery: start following the evidence.

This roadmap helps survivors organize evidence, understand patterns of coercive control, and prepare for deeper clinical work when appropriate, including specialized approaches such as the Healing Qualia Treatment Protocol© developed by Dr. Alyse Price-Tobler.

Inside this forensic roadmap, you'll learn how to:

• Use The BITE Model© and the Influence Continuum© as investigative instruments for recognizing coercive influence.

• Apply The DARE Frameworks™, a structured investigative methodology for documenting behavioral evidence, organizing patterns, and reconstructing your personal case.

• Complete the DARE Behavioral Control Audit™ to identify patterns of coercive control within families, relationships, organizations, and high-control environments.

• Build a structured case file that prepares you for informed conversations with clinicians, attorneys, advocates, or other trusted professionals.

Dawn McCarty is a criminologist, cybersecurity strategist, author, and child psychological abuse prevention advocate whose work bridges forensic behavioral intelligence, coercive control, investigative methodology, and survivor-led recovery. Through the DARE Frameworks™, she helps survivors move beyond confusion by following the evidence.

The evidence was never lost.

It's time to unseal the crime scene.

Your investigation begins now.