Adam Graham

They moved from Colorado to Wyoming.

He developed crying fits in addition to amnesia and had persistent exhaustion.

He also suffered from epileptic automotorism, which are...

behaviors that occur during a seizure.

Webb writes, little was known about brain injuries in the 1930s and today's imaging and other technologies may have diagnosed the extent and nature of his particular problems and led to management of his condition.

So this may have been a case where these deaths were caused by the fact that this man had an injury that the medicine of his day just could not understand.

And as a result, it ended in tragedy.

Now, since it was unexplained, I guess I said, yeah, let's just go ahead and make up this story about the whole mother fixation.

It'll be great for radio.

I also had to chuckle a bit at the narration, because the way that it's stated...

is this reporter keeps thinking, well, I'm going to this Mormon town.

And the idea of Mormon country from the reporter's perspective.

The thing is that from the perspective of a reporter in Utah, in the 1930s, Utah was about 70% Mormon.

And the rural counties and small towns of Utah were more Mormon.

uh, LDS, uh, than the rest of the state.

And that's still the case.

The rural counties in Utah have a much higher percentage of LDS adherence than the rest of the state.

And the idea of driving through like every single town in Utah and saying, there's a Mormon town in the 1930s is just, well, it reminds me of a cartoon where, uh,

A very strange family played spot the car by not like spotting the red car or the blue car, but spotting any car.

So for audiences in Utah, this might have been some odd choice of language, though they were probably used to it.