Jad Abumrad

Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?

Each answer just begs another why.

And even though in the end they got him to confess to these 49 murders, they never really get any closer to an answer than this first one.

That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home.

He finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her.

She says, what happened today?

My dad said, I don't want to talk about it.

And to this day, they have not talked about that day.

And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book.

And

Why is it so important, do you think, to understand the why behind such an evil act?

Well, the thing that haunts me about the why question is that I'm reminded of like one of the oldest stories in the Bible, which is the story of Job.

The story of Job is that one day God and Satan are having a conversation and they're saying, have you checked out Job?

You know, I'm really proud of Job.

He believes in me and he trusts me so much and he has such great faith in me.

And Satan is like, I bet I can change his mind.

And so Satan basically systematically destroys Job's life, takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions.

What follows is this ongoing conversation between Job and his friends about why does this happen?

Why does God allow this to happen?

Only then does God speak up and kind of say, like, you're going to question me?