Like the New York City apartment she rented a few years after returning from the Russia trip. Somehow Townsel got the Village Voice to do a profile on her flat, which she described to the Voice reporter as looking like "a Bangkok brothel."

And then there was the birth of Ms. Townsel's baby. By October 2000, the Bolton accuser had moved to Dallas – just in time to be quoted in the Dallas Morning News giving advice on how to juggle a career and motherhood.

By 2003, Melody Townsel was in the news again – this time after a local homeless man was hit by a truck. The Dallas Morning News turned to Townsel because she once hired the injured gent "to move heavy boxes and to help make repairs in her back yard."

But the most intriguing account of Townsel's travails came nine years earlier – just after she returned from the ill-fated Russia trip where she encountered Bolton.

"She broke her left leg in three places while working in Kazakhstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union," the Dallas paper reported in December 1994. "Ms. Townsel said the broken leg was a painful blessing. ... Had it not been for the accident, she would not have made it home for Christmas."

It's unclear from the report whether Townsel broke her leg before or after she was compelled to run down that Moscow hallway with Bolton in hot pursuit.

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