Carter Roy

Their story has been splashed all over the National Enquirer and just about every major newspaper in Texas.

Even though they've never claimed that what they saw came from another planet, they can't escape the alien associations or the sensationalized coverage.

They're always cast as sideshow characters and never the victims of a dangerous public health event.

And that remains true, even as their health problems continue.

All three have a hard time going out in the sun due to their skin sensitivity to light.

Even riding in a car during the daytime can cause blisters, so they mostly avoid it, especially Betty.

She stops working altogether, shuts herself inside her home, and basically becomes a hermit.

And what's worse than being forced to live life as a hermit?

Living life as a hermit with cancer.

I know, it's terrible.

And what's even worse is doctors tell Betty she can't treat her cancer with radiation.

That her skin is too paper thin and damaged already.

But she's able to undergo surgery to remove her right breast based on reports that seems to keep her cancer at bay.

That's good news, sure.

But imagine being Betty, facing a cancer diagnosis and not knowing if it's linked to what happened that night.

and not knowing who or what to blame, every health problem becomes just another mystery that plagues her mind from time to time in between fighting for survival.

It's exhausting and cripplingly expensive.

In 1983, Betty and the Landrums decide to do something about it.

They want answers.

They want to know what happened to them, and they want the people responsible to pay.