Jeff Blackstock

this is an account of a man looking into his mother's death (when he was around 8) and discovering that it was his father who killed her. there is nothing he can prove for certain, although the evidence he had would likely convict in a court, had they been able to go that route. it's also a story of a gaslighting father, who, when presented with information/evidence has so many excuses and even more weird reactions. it's less a story of the children coming to terms with understanding that their father was their mother's killer, but a little of that is in here, too. but this was during a time when they didn't really spend much time with their father anyway, and so didn't have much of a relationship with him. i'm sure that would have looked differently if this happened in a different time or if the family had different means.

interesting, for sure.… (mehr)