how he had angels protected him and people who had crossed him in the past had gotten really sick, or their family had died. he would get this terrible grin that just looked evil. they were sisters, whose mom brought them here to live with others in this tight-knit commune. we were all having meals together and there were lots of parties. a swimming pool, a fleet of cool cars. it seemed like a kids fantasy. you are the little girl who got the horse for your birthday? i got three horses. it was called angel s landing, a special place for a chosen few. a community of free spirits, but also, some would come to suspect, troubling secrets. she fell and hit her head and drowned. it started with a strange, sudden death. then another. and another. he had been crushed under a vehicle while working on it. all ruled accidents. but were they? it doesn t smell right. for investigators, a journey into the supernatural. he would say that even though we couldn t see h
cody, i don t think you need to put any words to it. really can t. lou and trish, not blood relatives, determined the burial place for mona and lindsey. a surprise to lisa, who again raised an eyebrow when she saw her sister and nieces obituary in a south dakota newspaper. and it lists myself, my two sisters and her brother, lou. we re like, where did we pick up a brother? later, as emily recalled the awful story of the plane crash, she, to, remembered lou telling her what he told cody. he said that lindsey was a supposed. whatever that meant in 2003 after trish in s the swimming pool, emily and her sister sara weren t the only ones trying to make sense of it all. a local detective in wichita was also taking an interest in
year old cody griffith from texas, who had also once been on the fringes of the family commune. he had been close to trish and lou thanks to his mom mona. my mom and church were really great friends. they would do a lot together. cody s mom mona was something of a flower child. she was extremely loving, very free spirited. everything was spontaneous. there was really no planning. she could say hey, let s get in the car and drive somewhere. could have been a hippie in earlier days? maybe. just someone who is extremely loving. very accepting. when cody was growing up in corpus christi in the mid 90s, his mom mona was going through a difficult divorce. and financial troubles. she, cody and cody s young sister lindsey, moved in with their good friends trish and lou at the apartment complex. i remember lou taking us to baseball practice. my sister and lou taking her home from school in south like that. his mom and trish took turns cooking for what was the beginnings of the c
i just found that strange. six weeks after the plane went missing, lisa and cody got the news they were dreading. the wreckage had been found. there were no survivors. so that s end of all of this? it s not going to have a miraculous ending. yes. cody traveled back to rapid city and once again saw lou, who seemed distraught. he starts crying and he tells me that my little sister was never supposed to be on the plane. he tells me that, if my mom had only been on the plane, that he says, you know i would ve taken your sister and we would ve left. he would ve become like the adoptive father then? right. how would you know whether she was supposed to be are not? i don t know. looking back, and you wonder what he meant by that? every day. every day. an ntsb investigation into the catastrophe found no mechanical problems with the plane. leaning toward a theory that bad weather had contributed to the crash. when do you miss your mom and sister the most? times along the w
decided want to pick up six and moved to south dakota, mona decided she wanted to go to and take cody and his sister along as well. i ll never forget it, it is just like yesterday. and i told her, no i m not leaving. and i had gotten extremely upset. the very thought of being so far away from his dad was too much for codi. what does she say, yes you are, you re going to go with us? no she let me make that decision. she would ve not wanted me to do something i didn t want to do. so, a late 1998, mona and cody s younger sister lindsey ended up leaving corpus christi and settled near rapid city, south dakota. where one christmas, cody paid them a visit. it was an extremely small home. it was in the mountains. we even went and cut our own christmas tree. off the grid kind of cabin? yeah. the cabin was a tight squeeze, for sure. by the family commune was growing. it was here that trish met and married brian, the auto mechanic, and they had a daughter. mona, cody s mom, had a