he thinks i hate him. ratliff s mother, missy hayes, says he will not respond to his angry letters. personally i think it s manipulation at its finest. i know he feels hurt and lost and abandoned and all of that completely natural. that doesn t give him the right to be mentally or emotionally abusive to me. i think david has misplaced anger. he doesn t know how to handle what his dad did. he has never dealt with it. he put himself there. he s the only one that can pull him out of it. i cannot fix this. missy still lives in the home where her husband, david sr., fired the shots that forever changed her life. well, my mother was killed here. i was shot at the kitchen table. i m not going to let that take away from my home. he took enough. i love my home. i love coming home to my home. i m very proud of my home. this is my happy. this is my safety zone. believe it or not. you ve lost your mother in
he s in the house. he s shooting! he s shooting. i still didn t know that this was a gun that i was hearing. i didn t know that i had been shot. and my father came, grabbed me. we heard another shot. that shot was david killing himself. the tragedy sent missy s son, david ratliff jr. who, at the time was 21, on a downward spiral. 21-year-old man. how did you deal with that? not the right way. i started my drug use took a whole other level. i started shooting heroin, shooting whatever i could. i mean, that was it. i was numbing myself to complete numbness. kept coming to jail. kept getting other chances. what is your relationship with your mom now? after everything everything
way, shape or form. stop getting locked up and it won t be an issue. still awaiting trial on unrelated charges of leaving the scene of an accident in which his passenger was badly injured and criminal involvement with an underage girl, ratliff has had problems both in and out of jail. he says everything went wrong three years earlier after his father went on a spree of violence. he murdered missy s mother, shot and murdered missy and took his own life. this right here is my mom and dad in florida. what do you think when you look at that picture of your parents, happy together? only good things, you know. the good days, when everyone got along and that s a great picture of my son and my dad. i love that picture. still here, helping me through
him. he thinks i hate him. ratliff s mother, missy hayes, says he will not respond to his angry letters. personally i think it s manipulation at its finest. i know he feels hurt and lost and abandoned and all of that completely natural. that doesn t give him the right to be mentally or emotionally abusive to me. i think david has misplaced anger. he doesn t know how to handle what his dad did. he has never dealt with it. he put himself there. he s the only one that can pull him out of it. i cannot fix this. missy still lives in the home where her husband, david sr., fired the shots that forever changed her life. well, my mother was killed here. i was shot at the kitchen table. i m not going to let that take away from my home. he took enough. i love my home. i love coming home to my home. i m very proud of my home. this is my happy. this is my safety zone. believe it or not. you ve lost your mother in this horrible way.
he s in the house. he s shooting! he s shooting. i still didn t know that this was a gun that i was hearing. i didn t know that i had been shot. and my father came, grabbed me. we heard another shot. that shot was david killing himself. the tragedy sent missy s son, david ratliff jr. who, at the time was 21, on a downward spiral. 21-year-old man. how did you deal with that? not the right way. i started my drug use took a whole other level. i started shooting heroin, shooting whatever i could. i mean, that was it. i was numbing myself to complete numbness. kept coming to jail. kept getting other chances. what is your relationship with your mom now? after everything everything that happened, it was crappy.