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>> jen was blind sighted by the father she thought she knew. it changed who i was and how i thought about myself. >> i remember thinking i have monster dna, that eventually i would hurt someone. maybe i would kill someone. i became frighten. i started sleeping with knives and scissors under my pillow. i went into a severe depression. >> atdepression that drove a little girl to confide in her diary and write her father a letter. >> this letter was, i very much was processing everything that was happening to me. >> dear jim, i pray that some day you may feel remorse for your sins and murders.

Scratched it raw. i came home with nail marks all the way down my back. >> how old were you? >> i was four about to turn five. >> lynn realized her child was in danger and alerted police, child services and jim's own family. time and time again, my mom was written off as a bitter ex-wife. >> one of the challenging things about raising this red flag was who my father had been. he came from an upper middle class family, he had such a successful college career. how did that individual can become someone who is scary and dangerous was just really not something that his friends or family could unde...

>> there is your dad doing your hair. >> yeah, he would do my hair every morning. >> how would you describe your relationship with your dad as a kid? >> in those early years, we have a relationship that most people would have with their mother perhaps. we were incredibly close. he was my whole world. >> think that's around the time he graduated from college. my parents met in the counter culture movement of the late 60s and throughout the first year of their marriage, they were really focused on their activism. for jim and lynn, the '60s was a time of civil unrest, protest

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Was, how i thought about myself. i remember thinking, i have monster dna, that eventually i would hurt someone, maybe i would kill someone. i became very frightened. i started sleeping with knives and scissors under my pillow. i would barricade my door at night. i went into a really, really severe depression. >> depression that drove a little girl to confide in her diary and write her father a letter. >> in this letter i very much was processing everything that was happening to me. dear jim, i pray that someday you may feel some remorse for your sins of murder. you chose to hurt and be a threa...