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Mike Kurtz, a retired Christian police detective of thirty years, had embarked on a forty-year journey to understand why his mother, Kathy, murdered his father who was a St. Louis County police detective. Through the years, he began to understand how she also contributed to the death of his two little sisters, Lisa and Michelle.

Through years of research and conversations with his mother, Kathy, the truth was slowly revealed. Lies and deceit from his mother only encouraged him to be more inquisitive. It took forty years of soul-shaking talks and nightmares before the truth would finally make itself known. On his mother's deathbed, she finally admitted what Mike had already known.

This a true story about the betrayal and loss of a secure life that every child deserves. Times of happiness and adventure are described only to be overtaken by the well-planned murder of his father and the negligent death of his two sisters.