Larry McNabney (Victim)

put my needs before her wants.

Nothing really serious, but she stayed in trouble all the time was a problem.

at 145 IQ, but she did not grasp balancing a checkbook.

Haley kept the family accounts, managed the checkbook, and kept the checks from bouncing.

For her, it was about fun until it was not.

Until it was about, you know, waking up in the middle of the night and saying, hey, we have to leave because rent hadn't been paid or she was being evicted.

I think to her,

That was normal.

This is what mom and I do.

Then there was one specific incident at Christmas that started a snowball effect.

Haley's mom's new boyfriend was going through a bitter divorce.

She had purchased Christmas presents for his children and had them delivered to the home in an effort to allow him to see the kids on Christmas.

But the gesture didn't work.

And when the wife said, no, that's not going to happen, she went back in the house, got the presents.

And she got caught.

I think at worst, it was a trespass.

But she got charged and got put on felony probation.

and then violated her parole, and her parole officer was at the game that she went to.

She was terrified of going to jail and being confined, and that began the cavalcade, that began the avalanche.

She said, Haley, I have to go away, and I'm not coming back.