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Thank you so much for listening. Melissa and Evan Marshall's lives changed forever in late February of 2021.

The murder of Evan's beloved father, Richard Donald Marshall,

deeply impacted people across the country. Evan and Melissa's consequent heartbreak didn't

end there, though, and neither has their tenacity. Relatedly, it means so much that they were

willing to discuss their journey and all that ensued afterwards with us on what came next.

My dad was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1950. In 1960, when he was 10, the family moved to Willoughby, Ohio, which is a suburb of Cleveland.

He finished high school there and he married his high school sweetheart.

She went off to Brandeis University.

He was the second son of a family at the height of the draft in 1968 for the Vietnam War.

My uncle, his brother Bill, got the academic deferment, so my dad didn't have a choice

but to face the draft board and possibly get drafted to Vietnam. That was kind of the beginnings

of his political anti-capitalist philosophy that he had. He was dodging the draft. He was hiding. He

was not going to draft meetings. The draft board was really up his ass. So he went to Kent State to go to school as long as he could before he got drafted.

And when he was in Kent State, he was deemed undraftable, luckily, because he was a big man.

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