CHAPTER THREE: Sandi

When Todd started looking into Steve’s unusual adoption, he was faced with different versions of events. The story Steve's adoptive mother Mary told him and the tale Sandi told don’t line up, except for one detail: the tiny Honda they both remember from the day Sandi left Steve w ...  Show more

After Franklin Floyd kidnapped Sandi’s daughter, 6 -year-old Suzie, they left town and never came back. They spent their life on the run, with alias after alias. But they did stay in Forest Park, Georgia for years, long enough for Suzie to graduate from high school with the secon ...  Show more

Sani found out that her dad wasn’t actually dead. Well, he was now. But he just died. He didn’t die when she was 5 years old like her mom had said. For 20 years, Sani believed that her dad was dead, but he had been a very healthy folklore professor at a local college. That’s how ...  Show more

That was it. He was going to kill her. 

Sato, a bachelor, a young man who still lived with his mother terrorized her within the walls of her own home.

Sure, she could still go out, enjoy her life, but Sato had control over the household in a way that made her feel ...

Steve shows a different side of himself in very personal interviews with his two oldest daughters. Amanda talks about growing up with social anxiety and her decision to not go to college, while Lily speaks candidly about her battle with anorexia and the conversation she had wi ...

As a kid, Liza Rodman spent her summers in Provincetown, trying her best to stay out of her volatile mother’s way. Her favorite escape: running errands with family friend Tony, who soon became her de facto babysitter. One summer, Tony stopped coming around—something Liza didn’ ...