how he had angels protected him and people who had crossed him in the past had gotten really sick, or their family had died. he would get this terrible grin that just looked evil. they were sisters, whose mom brought them here to live with others in this tight-knit commune. we were all having meals together and there were lots of parties. a swimming pool, a fleet of cool cars. it seemed like a kids fantasy. you are the little girl who got the horse for your birthday? i got three horses. it was called angel s landing, a special place for a chosen few. a community of free spirits, but also, some would come to suspect, troubling secrets. she fell and hit her head and drowned. it started with a strange, sudden death. then another. and another. he had been crushed under a vehicle while working on it. all ruled accidents. but were they? it doesn t smell right. for investigators, a journey into the supernatural. he would say that even though we couldn t see h
rapid city to make a new start with their moms free living, free spending friends in their wichita, kansas, the two sisters emily, 11 and sara, 17, we re still living in the family commune called angel s landing. lou who had money and lots of spare time, was the patriarch. and trish, who is married to brian and had a baby daughter, took care of the home. trish was the one that would be there before you went to school and after we went to school. because my mom had to work. did you like her? i loved her. i loved trish. so what happened in june, 2003, angel s landing, came as a sudden, life altering shock. the day began normally enough for the sisters. we all had gone to lunch. trish and her daughter, a friend of mine and her baby, and then lou and my sister. and then we came back to the house after lunch and trish and emily and the baby were going
to clean the pool. that was the plan for the afternoon? right. and lou and i were going to go to davis moore. car dealership? right. so you go to the car dealership with lou? yes. back at the swimming pool, something truly awful had happened. i called 9-1-1. she told the operator that trish s toddler had fallen into the pool. and when trish had tried to save her little girl, she had slip backwards. she had slipped and fell and hit the concrete? she fell and hit her head and drowned. the baby was in trouble in the pool? right. you rescued the baby but you couldn t help? right. emily got the baby out of the pool. but because she was just a whisper of a thing, try as she might, emily could not lift trish s body out of the water. hopeless. across town, sara and lou we re checking out cars at the dealership when sara s phone rang. i received a phone call from emily as she says that trish fell in the pool, i need you to
drowned in the swimming pool. sisters sara and emily saw trish s husband brian, a auto mechanic, a broken man. left to raise a daughter. brian loved trish more than anything in the world. and he loved his daughter immensely. he was a really, just good person. he missed his wife. brian was the head. as they coped with the loss themselves, emily and sara had a flashback. and pieced together another incident when tragedy struck struck the family, about two years before. i wasn t there. and i m glad i was not there. that would just be more that i had lost. not long before trish s death, this is first met 15
angel one, angel to, and so on. a lot of it is kind of a kid stream? yeah, i mean i got everything i wanted. while the sisters did stay in touch with her dad, who had moved nearby, lou s promise of whatever your heart desires found a speak spot. lou asked me what i want if my birthday and i said i would love to have a horse, and i know it s expensive and it s too much. we re so, we re not going to do that. he s like no, if you are horse we re going to get a horse. you were the little girl who got a horse for your birthday? i was. i got three horses. you are the princess of the house? yes. emily, being the princess, didn t always sit well with sister sara. so the other young mom in the family, brian s wife trish, sometimes stepped into referee their sibling rivalry. she was the disciplinarian? kind of. there was a specific way to do things and you did it her way. and that s just what was expected. what did you think of trish? did you like her? she was wonderful.