Immense Damage

Supposedly, when Mark arrived in the hospital and saw how much damage the acid had caused, he screamed, “Kill me now, if my face is going to be left looking like this, I don’t want to live.” And that wasn’t all, the amount of pain that he was in was absolutely unthinkable. The only solace at the time was that Wallace was quickly found by authorities still in the apartment. She was taken into custody right there and then.

He Was Unrecognizable

According to Mark’s father, when he arrived at Southmead Hospital, “The first room I had looked in. I failed to recognize my own son. His injuries were unbelievable.” In fact, heartbreakingly, the hospital staff would even tell Mr. Van Dongen that they ‘had never seen such injuries.’ Not only was 25% of his body burned, his face was disfigured, his left eye was blinded while the right was almost completely blind as well, and many portions of his skin needed to be ‘surgically removed.’