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these books represent hours probably hundreds of hours of my mom's work when I look at them I see my
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mom I see her descriptions her handwriting I see the pictures that she took I see us with
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her my mom was a research scientist um and my dad was a pediatrician my mom was super outdoorsy she loved to be outdoors
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I really viewed my dad as being a really good father being very caring engaged it
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was a perfect family two very successful smart good-looking people with four kids
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they were a great couple first 10 years of knowing each other and then they sort
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of degraded after the divorce we spent most of our time with my father as I got older he became more confrontational
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with my mother there mostly verbal abuse Johnny would be very combative in front
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of the children he blamed UTA for everything that went wrong in his life it was bizarre he asked me would it be
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bad if UTA wasn't around anymore I was the first one to find her I drove over the door was unlocked I
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went in I could hear the water running I knocked I came into the bathroom and I found her in the tub underneath the
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water so I knew she was dead the police said this is a a suicide everybody knew it wasn't a suicide it's
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not suicide just can't be as I thought about my dad's behavior before and after her death it became more and more
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apparent to me that he was responsible for killing her Johnny did not kill UTA he cared too
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much about having his kid's mother in his kids lives Pella was a teenager who got swept up in a crusade that was
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started by others I'm not sure how many people would have the courage and conviction of character to do what he's
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done it became more and more clear to me exactly what I need to do