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Would You Be Able To Turn In Your Family Member, If They Committed Murder?
Tales from the holler continued.
The other day I watched the Netflix series about the Unabomber. I remember when he got caught I was in high school, and it was all over the news, “crazy guy living in the woods of Montana, caught and suspected of being the Unabomber.”
Until the other day, I never really gave it much thought. One of the women on the task force spoke to my college, which inspired me to be a nurse, but the actual story about Ted Kaczynski, never even appealed to me.
I thought he was a murderer and was convicted, and he would die in prison. That was all the feelings I had about that until the other day.
The one part in particular that interested me was that his brother turned him in, well he didn’t per se turn him in, but he suspected the “manifesto” seemed like it was Ted, so he reported it to the FBI and ended up being what got him caught.
What would you do if you knew your immediate family member was responsible for killing over 20 people? Could you do this? Would you turn him in?
I have thought about this question a lot.
The man who killed my father was friends with him. I say friends, but maybe they were more like acquaintances.
