Thank you guys! You're truly wonderful people! Today, for the first time in over 3 years, we ran into FIL. He was just as warm and welcoming as I remember him to be when I first met him! He was so excited to see us, asked how our children are doing and told us how much he misses us all and how sorry he was that we left like we did 3 years ago. We played along like nothing was amiss. It was so hard. He is getting so much older now. He's missing nearly all of his top teeth. His parents are so far gone in health that I'm surprised they're still alive. He even gave us back some of our belongings that he had held "hostage" in the warehouse when we left. He sent toys over for the kids. He begged us to come back. There are so many emotions going through mine and my husband's heads right now. We know that we need to continue to do what is right, though. We even questioned him a little on the 4 murders that we are positive on. Of course, he still claims that he had nothing to do with them and said he's been being harassed by LE a lot lately from both Stark and Summit Counties so he's retained a lawyer. He told us that LE is now looking at the neighbor as a possible suspect in Linda Smith's murder since the day after her body was found, he committed suicide. He also told us that the 2nd murder victim's name was Dottie Morris. I'm not positive on the Morris part and will double check it later, but Dottie is positive.
You can see how emotionally and even physically this is draining us and now add in the fact that his father wants to be a part of our lives again? It's a cluster-screw of just how to handle it right now.
