Two women died trying to protect themselves from their abusive exes. Their families wonder why the system didn't protect them.

Sylvia Brice and Mimi Hardin both died on the day they tried, a final time, to protect themselves from an abusive ex.

Brice was stabbed as she packed up to hide from her former boyfriend, afraid that a court’s protection order was not enough. Hardin was shot hours after she filed her latest complaint...