People sometimes ask, where do you get ideas for stories? One place that I've gotten ideas is when I read a very small item someplace else, something like, "Man Nails Girlfriend's Fish to Floor" and I'll think, what the heck is going on there?
The way I found the story below started with a very small item in the Oregonian newspaper. Two bodies, a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, had been found in their home in Vancouver, Washington. There was very little known, aside from that foul play, or foul play by an outside party, was not suspected. But really the piece didn't even go that far, it seemed more concerned with handwringing about how the mother, who had been unemployed, had fibromyalgia, and her daughter had cerebral palsy, and life was so very hard and now they were dead and... that was it. I was like, what? I decided to look into the story, and that was… very, very much not it.
As I tell you in the audio, and will be telling you in further pieces I'll run this week and next, people have a hard time believing they've been taken advantage of, that they've been lied to, that, in believing the lies of others, they may have contributed to tragedies, including the murder of children. It's a terrible feeling, and as I explain in the audio, some people will do everything they can to push away the truth with both hands...
