Elizabeth Phillips

So, that was hard to heed, right?

It's like, what do you mean just grieve?

Like, just cry all the time for a year?

Like, I've got stuff to do.

And she's like, no, just grieve.

Like, sit in the grief.

Like, if you can't feel it, then you'll never heal from it.

Like, you have to feel it to heal it.

And the Jewish faith tradition has some really cool stuff around grief, like the way that they do funerals and the way the community supports each other when someone passes away.

And she's like, you need to go through the first four seasons without your brother before you take any action.

Like, just grieve it.

And it was really good advice for someone like me.

But then... about a year... Like, literally, so she said, grieve for a year.

Then that year passed, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do something.

That's when I got on the middle of the night, and I find this blog post, and it's called The Turner Report, and he was, like, a... local journalist who did his own blogging thing in Taney County.

And he'd posted about Pete Newman's indictment, and then, like, reported on the criminal trial proceedings.

And that's where I found that comment from that woman whose daughter had witnessed Pete with a boy in the woods and then acquired her research and all that.

I got a burner phone after that.

Like a drug dealer.

And I would, uh, take, I'd get tips, because in Trey's obituary, we, uh, we said, my parents and I, like, our family agreed, like, we are going to name this abuse.