Hi all.. I'm new here but just wanted to throw something out. I know it's important to focus on every angle and the work on the families has been awesome. I just wonder if it's something unrelated to their families.
For example, if something happened to me, online sleuthers might dig into my family and see tons of criminal activity (from both my mother's side and my father's side. My parents are pretty much the only children from their families who flew the straight and narrow and even did very well for themselves.) So I have cousins, aunts, uncles who have been in and out of jail for everything from drugs to child abuse and murder. It is something we are all deeply ashamed of and we have nothing to do with these relatives anymore. Yet, I knew them and spent time with them until my teenage years. I grew up with them and loved them deeply until they started their lives of crime. Now, I couldn't tell you the last time I saw or spoke to them. So, I guess what I'm saying, is that it's possible to have family involved in this criminal world and not have any associations with them.
I think its wonderful that your parents saw clear to take you away from the criminal element in your extended family.
I realize that Peter Placker tried to do the same. However, unfortunately I was so totally not thinking it was the family, until I saw Uncle Mosher's mugshot who lives in Weeleka. I am all for people going "straight and trying to raise their children away from violence". But my gut tells me this family is knee deep in "something", what it is, only OSBI can tell.
O, welcome to WS, we have alot of new ones on this thread!!
