and his dad surveyed the house, ransacked during the burglary. he had me go back and clean up all the jewelry that was overturned and spilled out. what does it do to your mind? it made me very numb. very numb. i just, it was a task, and i did, and went to bed. and your dad went to bed in the house with you? charlie understand his father intimately of course, but he alone knew the secret, understood his father in a way that had been hidden from the outside world for years. charlie may have looked like any other happy suburban kid, but at home he said he understood normal life to be the constant expectation of moments of terror. frequent unpredictable rages, abuse, another desperately trying to and so he would want to be it with a belt, and she would try and prevent, and that would
did you have at the same time a sense of how could we screw up like? that like everybody else you re trying to discern why why she did what she did, but did the officers, say what was a conversation? oh yes, there were lots of questions. this would be ugly. why did she go back in the house? why did the cops let her? why didn t they move in faster? how could they let the murder happen right under their noses? that was really disturbing and, you know, you hate to second judge another cop but there were mistakes made. after all, a neighbor reported a prouder in the back alley. a prouder who may have sneaked into her house. but she, the victim, didn t seem to believe that. she had a little eskimo dog, barking butterflies. and there is no way that there would be a she was wrong. she was wrong. her son, charlie, was a freshman in high school then. he was sitting in math class.
and said here is a second chance. a good reason to get up in the morning? a recent alive. mark and susan are now his mom and dad. he has taken their last name. and charlie, is more than he is thriving. i m going somewhere, and i m going fast. he got his masters and landed his dream job and theme park design. he has learned in spite of everything, that the rest of lessons to accept and move on. i know it happened, and i know it influenced me, but it is not defining me. but there is one thing that defines him, his mother s character. and that follows him everywhere. my mother was just ethereal, she holds a very special place. she is just everything that you
fred said they were, wait for, it pocket calls. and they prove nothing. the jury had to consider all possibilities naturally, but there was no shortage of nerves among members of linda s family. charlie, just 17 years old that day, watched the jury back in. its law on order, and everything right there. you sit there, everyone comes in, and you hold your breath. the world kind of stops. you don t know what s the outcome is, because they have all the power. whatever they say is the truth or what is going to be the truth. a lot of butterflies in your tummy? oh yeah. he looked at their faces for sign, waited nervously for justice for his mother. what was it like to hear the words? emancipating. it was just unbelievable. the verdict, guilty.
own blood. he tried to prevent charlie from getting his share of the schockner estate. and the charlie was granted some of the money, fred kept millions for himself. know how he managed to spend in prison was unclear. we wrote letters to all three of them. nick harvey, and asking to hear from them, what happened. fred wrote back, and said he was convicted on, highly skeptical circumstantial evidence, and that there should have been more than enough to prove my innocence. nick now in his 30s called us. he has matured in prison, he said. he was mad at the world back then. but as found god now. but listen to this, though he takes full responsibility for what he did, he is also been nursing a strange and very lonely conspiracy theory. i have always believed