Adam Graham

And he grew up in Missouri and he lost his parents.

His father died when he was four.

And then his mother passed away when he was 15.

And then he married, he ran a grocery, young, ran a grocery store and had marital problems, started drinking, tried to commit suicide.

And then they moved to Colorado, changed their names, and then moved to California, and then he got a job in construction, and some scaffolding fell on him.

And after that point, he had

injuries that were or he had actions that we would now associate with some sort of traumatic brain injury.

Webb writes there were a series of incidents some innocent and some not where he forgot significant things that he had done to others one of which was beating his wife.

Doctors told him he was doing too much and was burning the candle at both ends.

The problem with forgetfulness

of even the most recent personal action and events persisted.

In court testimony, his wife related that he would sometimes forget he was living her, asking when she arrived in town.

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.