CNN Anderson Cooper Special Report August 17, 2013 22:43:00
Suburbs with his sister and mother, his parent were divorced and his father was not a stable influence. >> the father was a methamphetamine addict. methamphetamine is a very cruel drug. it makes people delusional. it can make them violent. it can make them very abusive, not just physically but also emotionally. >> his friend says they were protected from some of it until their mother died. dimaggio and his sister, laura, ended up living with their father. a car salesman where they suffered years of abuse. >> jim was sort of abandoned with laura by their father. the father would just leave them...
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