a relationship most people would have with their mother perhaps. we were incredibly close. he just was my whole world. i think that s around the time he graduated from college. my parents met in the counter-culture movement of the late 60s. throughout the first years of their marriage they were really focused on their activism. well i got to get the world off my back pretty soon i m going to crack for jim and lynn and thousands of young americans, the 60s was a time of civil unrest, to protest war and experiment with mind-bending psychedelics. trippy drugs jim refused to abandon once he became a father. soon after we moved to
counter-culture movement of the late 60s. throughout the first years of their marriage they were really focused on their activism. well i got to get the world off my back pretty soon i m going to crack for jim and lynn and thousands of americans, the 60s was a time of unrest, to protest war and experiment with mind bending psychedelics. trippy drugs jim refused to abandon once he became a father. soon after we moved to arizona, when i was about 3, his talk about a revolution was getting serious. he was talking about a violent overthrow of the government. his behavior became very erratic. he was getting very physically aggressive with my mother and she decided to leave.
teachers, the school counselor, we have situations where multiple kids are reporting a problem. adults are saying the same thing that my mother heard in 1978. we can t do anything until he kills someone. that should not be the case. how did you find out that jim had actually killed someone? my father had called and said that he was a suspect in, i think, three murders. it did not surprise me. i knew he did it. before he killed those people, i felt a pure unconditional love. now, it s hard to feel and find that love under the grief i feel for his victims. as a little girl just 8 years old, jen was blind-sided by the father she thought she knew. it completely changed who i
child services and jim s own family. time and time again, my mom was written off as a bitter ex-wife. one of the challenging things about raising this red flag was who my father had been. he came from an upper middle class family. he had had such a successful college career. how that individual could become someone who is scary and dangerous was just really not something that his friends or family could understand. fearing the worst, lynn sought advice from a legal clinic. the attorney said, you need to pack up. you need to take your daughter somewhere safe, and you need to disappear. and so we left arizona, and for
arizona, when i was about 3, his talk about a revolution was getting serious. he was talking about a violent overthrow of the government. his behavior became very erratic. he was getting very physically aggressive with my mother and she decided to leave. jim and lynn separated and began sharing custody of their daughter when a new woman entered their lives, a wealthy socialite from scottsdale named susan barns. when i think about my relationship with my father, i very much see it as before susan and after susan. the moment she entered the picture, i don t remember any affection, i don t remember that kindness, it was like that connection we had was being lost. who was susan? susan claimed to be some type of yogi. she lived this posh country club lifestyle, but when the 60s