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of all the stories that I've told in 20
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years if someone says Mark
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plunky I immediately get a pit in my
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stomach it was shocking to think that a
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monster was living in this small town
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Mark latony killed his victim and
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cannibalized him the details were
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horrific and Terri horrifying something
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out of a movie like Silence of the Lamb
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something you'd expect of a serial
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killer the fact that the man I once
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loved could do this disgusts me he's not
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my dad anymore the person that he is now
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is not who my dad was Mark lony's
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Behavior has all the signs of
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potentially being a mass killer like
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Jeffrey
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Dalmer Mark should spend the rest of his
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life in prison for what he did he's not
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predictable he won't stay on medic
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he has a mental
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illness but I do wish it were
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different I wish I had a dad
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my name is Emily lonsky and I am Mark
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lony's
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ex-wife this photo is of him in the
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house that we bought together after we
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got engaged he was so excited about
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buying a house together and he wanted me
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to be happy with what the house looked
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like it was very old and the foundation
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was crumbling so we had it lifted and
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put a whole new base underneath
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it this is a photo of the house shortly
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after the basement was
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completed we bought this house with the
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intention of raising our family and
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having love and laughter and fun and it
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being the house that we would be in
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forever and
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I never could have imagined that it
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would be the scene of a horrific crime
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in the
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future it was in this basement in
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Maurice Michigan that 50-year-old Mark
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latony killed 25-year-old Kevin
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Bacon Mark picked him up brought him to
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his house they had consensual sex and
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then Mark stabbed
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him and when that didn't work he slid
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his
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throat Mark lonky hung him up by his
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ankles and at his testicles
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Mark had transformed the basement that
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he'd first built as a play area for his
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children this was Mark lony's Sex
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Dungeon in the basement and this is the
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room where Kevin Bacon's body was
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found my name is David kuster I'm a
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reporter in Michigan and we extensively
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covered the case involving Kevin Bacon
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and Mark lensky
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this story was unlike any other story
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that we've ever told and I've been doing
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this for a couple of decades now when
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someone brings it up immediately just
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sends chills down my
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spine when we think about maybe what had
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happened in Kevin's final minutes it
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makes you sick to your stomach it's just
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hard to believe that another human could
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do this to someone
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we are at Mark Lansky's house it's
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abandoned nobody's living in it and it
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breaks my heart that this was the house
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where we were supposed to raise our
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family
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together Mark and I met through mutual
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friends and they decided to set us up on
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a date
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I liked his calmness he was very
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passionate about the things that he
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believed in I liked that he was very
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hardworking and kind he was very
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kind at the time Emily was working as a
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preschool assistant teacher Mark was a
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research
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chemist he went to school to be a
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chemist graduated from Central Michigan
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University and then went went to Iowa
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State University and graduated from
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there with his
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Masters Mark lunsky was an extremely
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intelligent person he was valid
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dictorian of his class he graduated top
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of his class he went to college went to
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two different universities and then
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moved back to his hometown he got a job
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at a chemical company as a lab
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manager Emily fell in love with Mark
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over the course of a year of dating
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I liked the fact that Mark was a very
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gentlemanly person he was quiet he was
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kind and he was also so active in our
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community and he was always willing to
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help people if they needed
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help he always kept his hair short he
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was always clean shaven he might grow a
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mustache here and
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there he wore khaki pants and
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button-down shirts and he always looked
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put together and clean cut
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the couple got engaged in 2001 and then
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married in August of that same
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year this is a photo of our wedding he
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proposed to me under a hickory tree in a
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field that he owned um he told me he
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wanted our love to last as long as the
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hickory tree had been standing in
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longer I had been hoping that he would
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do it for a while and he was taking his
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time he was making me wait and so when
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he finally proposed I was really
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excited the marriage was good we didn't
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argue or fight at all he was always calm
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quiet when he was around we bought an
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old house and tore it down to the studs
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and he was always working when he found
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a project he worked and worked on it
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until he was done he's always needed
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something to do
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the couple went on to have four
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children our first child was born in
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2003 after our son was born he was about
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16 months old and we had a
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daughter when you were born he was
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excited cuz he already had a boy so he
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was happy to have a girl and he loved to
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sit on the couch and hold you when you
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were
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sleeping I remember him putting me on
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his shoulders and running around the
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living room when I was
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little my name is Eliza Lansky I am 19
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years
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old my earliest memory of my dad is
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probably when he brought home a bunch of
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shredded up paper from work and he
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spread it all across one of our rooms in
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our basement and we played in it and we
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called it the confetti room and one time
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where we were down there just making
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balls of paper and throwing them at each
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other and having a good time
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I would describe my family as normal
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traditional I feel like he was like any
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other dad he loved me I loved
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him but everything in the lives of this
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happy regular family slowly began to
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change there was one time I found a
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picture on his computer and it was of a
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naked
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man he told me that he just wanted to
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make sure that he measured up that I was
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okay with how he looked and that he was
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you know that he was okay for me and I
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was like you're fine you don't have to
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compare yourself to anybody else you're
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fine just the way you
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are there could have been some internal
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battles with Mark's
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sexuality he may have been bisexual or
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it may be that he had a wife cuz he felt
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that that's the thing he should do then
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in
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2010 Emily became concerned about her
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husband's state of
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mind we noticed his mental health
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slipping on the day of my son's birthday
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party where he came out with these
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stories that he believed he was going to
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be the heir of a big trust fund and that
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it was being kept for him by somebody
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but he didn't know who a lot of the
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things he was saying were very
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concerning they were very paranoid
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thoughts and and thoughts that were not
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realistic he was starting to have
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something called
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delusions almost losing touch with
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reality and that can be indicative of
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psychosis and
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schizophrenia he was such a gentle
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person he didn't hunt animals he didn't
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kill anything and I can't even imagine
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him killing anything now sometimes I
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still think about it
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and can't believe that he did
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it Emily and Mark lensy had been happily
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married for 9 years and had four
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children when Mark started to exhibit
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signs of mental illness their
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relationship began to change
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he came out with a theory that he was
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not actually his mother's son but he was
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his mother's
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brother and that there was a family
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fortune that it was his to inherit he
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said that he
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was a person who was protected with an
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alternate name that Mark lonsky wasn't
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actually his real name Emily convinced
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Mark to check into a mental health
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hospital where he remained for 5
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days my mom sat me and my brother down
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on the couch and told us he was in the
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hospital and I couldn't understand it at
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the time cuz I was
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little they said he was under extreme
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stress there had been some issues going
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on with his family at the
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time and they sent him home on a
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medication that he stopped taking as
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soon as he got
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home he told me he didn't need
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medication there was nothing wrong with
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him
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Mark also made a shocking
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Revelation he had admitted to me that he
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had slept with men on his business trips
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and that he had gone on the internet and
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found people to sleep
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with Emily and Mark agreed to attend
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marriage counseling to try and keep
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their family
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together he told me he did not want to
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break up he wanted to stay together he
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he was going to stop having affairs he
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wanted our marriage to work he didn't
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want me to leave and so I told him I
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would work on it for a
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year he didn't take it seriously it
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didn't really work and eventually he
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started going back to doing the things
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that he was
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doing as Mark wasn't taking his
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medication his mental health only got
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worse that combined with Mark's Affairs
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meant that in May
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2012 Emily asked him for a divorce
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I was upset because I wanted to be
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married forever I wanted my children to
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have a stable home I didn't want to have
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them have divorced parents I was upset
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that he had
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cheated Emily took the children and went
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to live with her parents picking up her
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old job as a teaching
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assistant after the divorce we saw him
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every other weekend
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the visits with my dad were
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unsupervised being at his house we would
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do fun things almost every weekend I
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remember going to the zoo and playing in
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the
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yard just a month later Mark was
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readmitted to a mental health
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facility they diagnosed him with
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paranoid schizophrenia and extreme
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depression he came home on medication
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and again refused to take
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it and he believed that we were trying
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to poison him and that we were all
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against
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him with schizophrenia it can be that
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it's been lying dormant and actually
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stressful life events can trigger an
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episode it could be hypothesized that he
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was dealing with an internal struggle
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about his sexuality and then stress that
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he was experiencing triggered an episode
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of
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schizophrenia Mark was permitted custody
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of the children for 2 weeks during the
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summer of
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2013 but when he was due to give the
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kids back to Emily they didn't show
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up I called him and I said hey are you
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on your way and he said no and I said
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you need to bring the kids back and he
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said I'm not going to bring them back
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and if you don't like it you can call
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the police so I called the police and
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the police told me there was nothing
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they could
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do my lawyer was able to get an order
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ordering the immediate return of my kids
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for the next day and so when we went to
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his house with the order um he was gone
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he wasn't there and the kids were not
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there and the police called him and he
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answered the phone and he told them he
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was at a water park with the kids and he
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was not bringing them
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back I was only 9 we all sat down
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outside on a picnic table and he told us
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we were going to a water park and that
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was kind of exciting from what I
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remember and we all got in the car and
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drove there and then at the water park
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we were playing and splashing
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around I did not realize that we were
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kidnapped the police went to the water
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park arrested Mark and safely returned
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the children to
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Emily he was charged with two counts of
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attempted kidnapping and custodial
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interference he was found not competent
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to stand trial for those charges and so
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they eventually dropped them because
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they decided it wasn't worth Prosecuting
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him
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for it's difficult to work out in that
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period of time whether Mark is losing
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his connection with reality and in his
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head he strongly believes that um Emily
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is a bad person and he needs to hang on
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to his kids or is this part of a battle
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with her where he feels AG grieved that
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she's left him and he wants to hang on
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to the kids as a form of
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punishment He was ordered only
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supervised visits with the kids the
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judge told me that I could set up
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supervised visits with him and so I did
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that the first visit he came to and then
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after that he didn't show
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up he didn't like being supervised so he
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decided not to see
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them I had no contact with my dad for 4
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years after the
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incident I feel like I got quite angry
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in those four years because he wasn't
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there and I no longer had a normal
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family during the four years Eliza
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didn't see her father Mark got remarried
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this time to a man named
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Jamie Jamie described Mark as a loving
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husband he said he was happy in the
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relationship they had a lot of things in
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common they enjoyed each other's company
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and it was just a great start to their
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relationship I never tried to contact
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Mark during that time he was still
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paying child support so I never had a
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reason to contact him the kids were dis
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connected from him they were upset with
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him that he had taken them and not
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returned them so they never really asked
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to see
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him in
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2018 Mark suddenly got back in touch
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with
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Emily Mark contacted me through my
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lawyer with a letter and he told me that
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he wanted to start seeing the children
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again it was just us being told one day
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that we were going to have visits with
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our dad
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again there was no connection anymore he
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was my dad and I did love him but it was
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still
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awkward I was angry because it felt like
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he abandoned us and now he just got back
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like nothing
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happened there was no I'm sorry it was
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just he was my dad
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again you've got a father who has gone
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away and then returns as if nothing has
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happened and for a child that is
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incredibly difficult to wrap your head
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around because in that moment you feel
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angry abandoned rage fueled because he
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how could you do this to
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me Eliza's response is entirely natural
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for the circumstances that she's
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in when Eliza met up with her dad again
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she hardly recognized him
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his hair was pretty long and his beard
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was long and braided his appearance
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changed drastically he always was clean
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cut and then he had long hair long beard
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and he looked very
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unkent then suddenly Mark's relationship
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with both his kids and his husband would
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come to an
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end the kid stopped seeing Mark in
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February of 2019 he lost his job and
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after he lost his job he his mental
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status deteriorated to the point where
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he was very adamant that the kids were
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not his and he was not going to see them
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anymore we didn't know that they were
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going to stop they just
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stopped I think it was because he was
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degrading
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mentally Jamie said he left Mark in
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September of 2019 because he felt he
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wasn't the only one in the relationship
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he said Mark was online a lot and trying
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to find sexual
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partners he started to tell jimie that
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people were out to get him and that
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people were listening to him and
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surveying him so Jamie started to notice
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these signs and became a little
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concerned and Afraid for
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himself I was not aware of what Mark was
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doing for work after he lost his job
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I learned later that he was selling
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himself on various websites he would do
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whatever the men wanted to if they
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wanted to have sex he would have sex
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with them if they wanted just to cuddle
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he would cuddle with them he was open to
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doing whatever as long as they paid
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him these crime scene pictures are
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really quite shocking here we can see
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what is basically a torture room he's
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got all different types of parapan falia
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to
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torture and to engage in sexual
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acts I think it's quite obvious that
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there was a lot of planning and this is
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something that he enjoyed
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doing in late
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2019 Mark latony had deteriorating
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mental health he was now living alone
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after his husband had left him and he
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was no longer in contact with his
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ex-wife and
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children he had also lost his job and
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had started selling himself for sex on
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different
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websites there were two separate
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incidents where two men had been
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reportedly escaping from Mark Lansky's
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home one man in October had escaped
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called 911 said he was being held
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captive in Mark's basement said he
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needed help wanted police to come but
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when police arrived he said that it was
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all consensual and didn't press charges
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another incident very similar to that
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had happened in November another man had
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escaped Mark Lansky's home he ran to a
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neighbor's
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house he was pounding on a neighbor's
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door screaming help me help me police
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spoke to the man briefly and again
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determined that there was no crime and
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said that it was consensual
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he's telling us one side of the story we
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want to get yours us that man was
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obviously really fearful which suggests
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that he was actually running for his
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life on Christmas Eve 2019 a young man
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called Kevin Bacon had been chatting to
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mark lunsky on grinder and they were
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discussing what they would like to do to
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each other
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sexually Kevin Bacon was a hair stylist
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in the Flint Michigan area he was
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attending University at the University
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of Michigan Flint he was described by
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his co-workers and friends as a nice uh
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empathetic kind-hearted person he often
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would get on apps like grinder
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for sexual
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hookups Mark picked Kevin up at a
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shopping
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center he had a play scenario going on
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where he let Kevin choose things to wear
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and from what I understood he wanted a
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kidnapping type scenario so Mark brought
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handcuffs and other things with him for
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Kevin to put on when they got there
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he put them on he got in the back of
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Mark's
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Car Mark drove him to his house
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blindfolded and covered with a
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blanket the next morning on Christmas
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Day Kevin was expected by his family but
00:24:24
when he didn't show up they started to
00:24:26
look for him his car was found at the
00:24:29
shopping center Kevin was reported
00:24:32
missing to the
00:24:35
police while everyone was searching for
00:24:38
Kevin and trying to find him Mark latony
00:24:41
was at Jim's house celebrating Christmas
00:24:45
jimie had invited him over because he
00:24:48
told me that he didn't want anybody to
00:24:51
be alone on
00:24:52
Christmas nothing was out of the
00:24:54
ordinary he wasn't acting unusual he
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wasn't nervous he was acting like
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himself completely
00:25:04
normal when I saw the posters of Kevin
00:25:06
Bacon I didn't think anything of it he
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was from a town that was about 15 or 20
00:25:11
miles away from us so I never suspected
00:25:16
anything 3 days passed during which the
00:25:20
police had been able to investigate
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Kevin's
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vehicle when the police searched Kevin's
00:25:27
vehicle they they found a bag with
00:25:30
Kevin's clothing and his cell
00:25:32
phone that's when they knew something
00:25:34
was suspicious and they had gained
00:25:36
access to his cell phone they had
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discovered the communication between
00:25:40
Mark lunsky and Kevin Bacon on grinder
00:25:43
and that's what led them to Mark
00:25:45
Lansky's
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home on December the 28th the police
00:25:51
paid Mark a
00:25:53
visit he invited them
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in he acted as a he wasn't trying to
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hide
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anything when police were looking around
00:26:07
the
00:26:09
house they had noticed that there was a
00:26:13
secret room in the
00:26:16
basement behind what they described as a
00:26:18
sliding barn
00:26:22
door and when they gained access that's
00:26:25
when they had found Kevin's body still
00:26:28
suspended upside down hanging in that
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room Mark latony was arrested and placed
00:26:40
in the back of a police
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car do I look like a blacked blackeyed
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[ __ ] what do you mean
00:26:54
lski oh is that that means yeah
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the lonskis are all blackhaired
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blackeyed
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[ __ ] what's your other name that you go
00:27:06
by you're saying that lonsk is in the
00:27:08
system lonsky is the name in the system
00:27:12
my name is not lonsky what is
00:27:15
it Thomas Hill oh yeah he's doesn't seem
00:27:21
stressed he doesn't seem agitated he
00:27:24
he's not showing any signs that Kevin
00:27:28
Bacon's body has been hanging there dead
00:27:30
in his house for so many days right
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now but is also saying he's not who he
00:27:36
says he is which kind of shows signs
00:27:39
that he suffers some severe mental
00:27:41
illness just by the way that he's acting
00:27:43
in this police cruiser he's claiming to
00:27:45
be Edgar Thomas Hill how did they get
00:27:48
lony I was raised by Loni oh
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okay that's quite a specific name and a
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specific spe ific thing to
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say this could indicate that either he
00:28:03
was trying to fake mental illness or it
00:28:07
actually was a symptom of his psychosis
00:28:12
so it is likely that some of the bizarre
00:28:14
things that he said was a symptom of his
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schizophrenia words soon spread around
00:28:23
the community about Kevin's body being
00:28:26
discovered in Mark's basement
00:28:29
I found out that Mark was involved in
00:28:31
Kevin's death a couple days after it
00:28:34
happened when it all hit the
00:28:36
news at the time I thought maybe it was
00:28:39
a fetish gone wrong that something had
00:28:41
happened on accident I never never
00:28:43
expected Mark to hurt Kevin on
00:28:46
purpose many people in the community
00:28:48
thought maybe this was a roleplaying
00:28:50
situation that had just gone bad no one
00:28:53
ever thought that this was an actual
00:28:56
murder
00:29:02
Mark was taken in for questioning where
00:29:05
he continued to insist that he wasn't
00:29:07
Mark
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latony
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no my
00:29:13
name is at Thomas Hill I went I am a
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Thomas of
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Wales and I reached out to the people in
00:29:27
Great Britain
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to find out if there are anymore okay
00:29:32
because as I have
00:29:35
looked amongst my blood
00:29:40
relatives I don't think there are any
00:29:45
other Thomas of Wales of the Thomas of
00:29:48
Wales
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Clan left except for
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[Music]
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me there's signs then that Mark seems to
00:29:58
be struggling with his connection with
00:30:01
reality and he can't tell what's real
00:30:04
and what's not but from his point of
00:30:07
view he is absolutely fine there's
00:30:10
nothing wrong with him but there's
00:30:13
something wrong with the people around
00:30:17
him Mark vonsky told the police officers
00:30:22
that Kevin Bacon had asked him to kill
00:30:25
him he said it was part of the sexual
00:30:28
fantasy that Kevin Bacon had wanted to
00:30:30
live out and Mark told police that he
00:30:34
fulfilled that and that he was going to
00:30:36
make Kevin
00:30:41
disappear as the investigation
00:30:44
progressed the true depravity of the
00:30:46
murder
00:30:48
emerged when they arrived at the house
00:30:52
there was sexual intercourse between
00:30:54
Kevin and Mark and then Mark LED Kevin
00:30:58
downstairs into the basement he was
00:31:01
still wearing the
00:31:04
blindfold and he stabbed Kevin in the
00:31:07
back of the neck and then slit Kevin's
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throat and then he used a rope and tied
00:31:17
it around Kevin's ankles and he had some
00:31:21
kind of poliy
00:31:23
system and he suspended Kevin hanging
00:31:26
him upside down
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to kill Kevin and slit his
00:31:36
throat and then get his body up and Tied
00:31:40
by his
00:31:41
ankles would have taken a lot of effort
00:31:44
so this shows the conviction that he
00:31:47
used when he did
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[Music]
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this after he suspended Kevin and he was
00:31:57
hanging upside down
00:31:58
Mark then took that knife and mutilated
00:32:01
Kevin's body and he removed his
00:32:07
testicles this is really quite gruesome
00:32:10
knowing the
00:32:12
absolutely brutal nature of what he did
00:32:16
to Kevin's body
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Mark was questioned about cannibalizing
00:32:35
Kevin's
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testicles where did you do that I mean
00:32:39
on the kitchen stove um FR P it would do
00:32:43
with the griddle I mean I I eat Rocky
00:32:46
Mountain leg there's anyway sure um I
00:32:49
have a a a c of them that I bought um
00:32:54
and so it's really very simple you some
00:32:58
you Dr to with some worship SAU and then
00:33:04
once there once they're done you
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[Music]
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just I believe that Mark thought he was
00:33:15
going to gain some sort of strength from
00:33:19
eating parts of
00:33:23
Kevin on December 30th
00:33:26
2019 50-year-old Mark latony was charged
00:33:30
with the murder of 25-year-old Kevin
00:33:34
Bacon I was shocked and there were lots
00:33:37
of Tears lots of
00:33:39
crying I couldn't believe it absolutely
00:33:42
couldn't believe that he would ever do
00:33:43
something like that he was never
00:33:46
aggressive he never hurt anything when
00:33:48
we were together I didn't think he was
00:33:50
capable of hurting anybody on
00:33:54
purpose I I knew he would never have
00:33:56
done it if he was in the right FR frame
00:33:58
of mind
00:34:02
mentally this is the father of her
00:34:05
children and he was part of that family
00:34:09
system and he's very very ill he has
00:34:13
done some heinous
00:34:16
crimes she's not forgiving that nor is
00:34:19
she forgetting that but she's coming
00:34:22
from a place of kindness and
00:34:25
understanding
00:34:29
Emily sat down with her children and
00:34:32
broke the news to them about what their
00:34:34
father had
00:34:35
done I was 15 years old when I found out
00:34:40
I was just kind of
00:34:43
astonished like it was surprising I
00:34:45
didn't know that he could do something
00:34:47
like
00:34:49
that I was kind of worried about what
00:34:52
other people might think because of our
00:34:55
relation the fact that my dad had killed
00:34:59
Kevin and eight parts of him is just
00:35:03
uncomfortable he's not the person that I
00:35:06
knew is not something that I ever
00:35:09
thought would
00:35:13
happen this is a photo of Mark at
00:35:16
Christmas time with her oldest child
00:35:19
Christmas after what happened with Kevin
00:35:22
was
00:35:24
different I had people sending messages
00:35:28
telling me that I had no right to
00:35:29
celebrate Christmas and be happy with my
00:35:31
kids because of what happened with Kevin
00:35:34
and even though we had nothing to do
00:35:36
with it it still affected Christmas for
00:35:39
[Music]
00:35:42
us it would be nearly 3 years before
00:35:45
lunsky was deemed mentally competent to
00:35:47
stand trial for the murder of Kevin
00:35:49
[Music]
00:35:51
Bacon the date was set for October 18th
00:35:55
at shasi County Circuit Court
00:36:00
it came by a surprise to everyone that
00:36:02
just weeks before the trial was to begin
00:36:05
that Mark latony pleaded guilty what we
00:36:09
don't know is what led him to make that
00:36:11
decision was he influenced by someone
00:36:14
did he have remorse did he wake up one
00:36:17
day feeling
00:36:19
guilty it makes me really sad that Mark
00:36:23
just pleaded guilty it makes me sad that
00:36:25
his mental capacity is not enough that
00:36:28
he is willing
00:36:29
to I don't know it's it makes me sad
00:36:32
that he is not mentally fit and even
00:36:36
though he was deemed mentally sound to
00:36:39
stand trial he still has a lot of ideas
00:36:42
that people are out to get him and he
00:36:44
doesn't believe anything's wrong with
00:36:45
him and he's so he didn't want that used
00:36:47
in court he didn't want his mental
00:36:49
status talked about at all in court and
00:36:51
it makes me sad that he's so far
00:36:55
diminished mentally that he just is
00:36:57
isn't willing to save himself or help
00:36:59
himself at
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[Music]
00:37:06
all on December 15th
00:37:09
2022 Mark was sentenced to life in
00:37:12
prison without the possibility of parole
00:37:15
for the murder of Kevin Bacon and an
00:37:18
additional 11 to 120 months for
00:37:21
mutilating Kevin's body I think that the
00:37:24
sentence is fair because I don't believe
00:37:26
he would be safe to be in society
00:37:29
anymore if he's capable of doing what he
00:37:31
did to Kevin he's capable of doing
00:37:37
more I don't know if we will ever really
00:37:39
know if Mark has remorse for Kevin's
00:37:43
murder considering he did plead guilty
00:37:45
his defense attorney had said that he
00:37:49
made this decision and he regretted the
00:37:52
actions of what happened to Kevin Bacon
00:37:55
but Mark latoni himself has never said
00:37:58
that he had any remorse for what he had
00:38:00
done to
00:38:03
Kevin the impact of Mark's actions on
00:38:06
his family has been
00:38:09
profound it has such a deep
00:38:12
psychological
00:38:13
impact they suffer shame embarrassment
00:38:17
regret it's hard for them to face people
00:38:21
they often attacked themselves because
00:38:23
people assume that they may have known
00:38:25
things so to move on with life knowing
00:38:29
that your loved one did something so
00:38:30
horrific causes a huge amount of
00:38:35
damage being the ex-wife of Mark latony
00:38:38
is something that will affect me as long
00:38:40
as I carry the last name my kids wanted
00:38:44
me to have the same last name as them so
00:38:45
I kept it after I get divorced and now
00:38:48
that last name is
00:38:55
there I have cried lots of Tears over it
00:38:59
and now it's something that is far
00:39:02
enough in the past that it doesn't make
00:39:04
me cry when I talk about it
00:39:08
anymore the man who committed the crime
00:39:11
is not my
00:39:12
dad my dad was loving and never raised
00:39:18
his voice at me or my siblings and never
00:39:21
vient there was never a time where I
00:39:23
felt scared or anything and I couldn't
00:39:26
imagine my dad doing something like that
00:39:30
I love the person that he was not the
00:39:32
man who's in prison
00:39:34
[Music]
00:39:36
now as a child with a parent like that I
00:39:40
think it is a
00:39:41
lifelong psychological and emotional
00:39:44
processing of coming to terms with that
00:39:47
to do so is to see it as he's not well
00:39:51
he has a mental illness and I feel sorry
00:39:55
for him but also she can't get past you
00:39:58
know what he did to someone else the
00:40:00
conditions
00:40:02
of Eliza has tried her best to move on
00:40:06
with her life without her
00:40:08
father I haven't spoken with my dad
00:40:11
since he's been in prison and I probably
00:40:14
won't have any contact with him because
00:40:15
he's not the same person
00:40:19
[Music]
00:40:22
anymore Mark was once a person who had a
00:40:26
great job he he had a great family he
00:40:28
had people he loved he worked hard and
00:40:32
his mental illness caused him to spiral
00:40:35
down into behavior that he never would
00:40:38
have been
00:40:39
capable of in the
00:40:43
past I think the turning point was him
00:40:46
just not being treated for his mental
00:40:48
illness I think that he went so far down
00:40:53
into his mental illness and his
00:40:54
fantasies that there was no coming back
00:40:56
from it
00:40:59
nobody could make him get
00:41:03
help whatever the reasons behind the
00:41:05
murder Kevin Bacon's life was
00:41:08
inexplicably cut
00:41:10
short Kevin Bacon's family will never be
00:41:13
at peace for what happened to Kevin on
00:41:16
Christmas Eve it was just something that
00:41:18
will haunt them for the rest of their
00:41:20
lives especially around Christmas which
00:41:22
had been such a happy time for this
00:41:24
family now all of their memories of
00:41:27
Christmas are going to haunt them
00:41:29
thinking about what happened to
00:41:35
Kevin my dad was mentally ill him
00:41:39
killing Kevin was part of his mental
00:41:41
illness and it's incredibly sad that he
00:41:45
got to that point and I sympathize with
00:41:48
Kevin's family because it should not
00:41:49
have
00:41:54
happened my heartbreaks for Kevin and
00:41:56
his family I can't imagine losing a son
00:41:59
in such a violent brutal way as he
00:42:02
did I have a son and so I can't imagine
00:42:05
what his mother is feeling I want to say
00:42:08
I'm really sorry to the bacon family I
00:42:10
can't imagine anything would have
00:42:11
happened like
00:42:13
[Music]
00:42:16
this when I hear Mark's name my
00:42:18
immediate thought is such a wasted
00:42:21
life such a heartbreaking situation for
00:42:25
everybody involved
00:42:36
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