According to Michelle Rawlins, the Conyers and Conners case displays the perfect example of domestic violence that occurs out of jealousy and a desperate need of control. The sequence of events could have been prevented by intervention of friends who saw the first signals for an abusive relations.
The two met in a party, and started chatting, Louise described Steven "sweet and quiet". Two months later Steven started the typical process of a battered man; trying to control Louise. The need of domination had severed gradually; it started with dozens calls a day to check for his partner's location, then he required an approach to her Facebook page, demanding to put trackers on their phones,