Discretion is advice.

This is 10 minute burn.

On March 13, 2000, four young men met up at a house in Spearfish, South Dakota, to play video games together.

The home belonged to Chester Allen Pogue and his family, and had been a long winding road for them to end up in this quaint rural city.

Chester himself had been born on July 4th,

1980, on a farm in Norton County, Kansas. The farm had been in the Pogue family for generations,

over a hundred years, and it looked like it was primed and ready to pass on to the next generation.

First, Chester, and then his younger sister,

grew up living and working on the parents' farm. The work was tough and physically demanding,

but despite Chester's small stature, he was tough. When he was done with the hard farm work for the day, Chester could be found playing baseball and basketball with the other kids of

Rural Norton County. But Chester was small and short for his age, and kids can be cruel. The other

members of the basketball team and baseball teams bullied him, and he was almost always picked

dead last. By 1994, things had started to fall apart at home, too.

The marriage between his parents was feeling a strain, and to try to smooth things over,

the family moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, looking for a fresh new start.

It wasn't meant to be, however, and in 1996, Chester's parents filed for divorce. Only four days later,

his father took his own life. Reeling from sudden loss, his mother moved Chester and his sister

back to Norton to be closer to their grandparents. Chester grew up. Now, over six feet tall, he became good with his hands

and interested in technology, which is partially the reason why he chose to study communications

technology at Northwest Kansas Technical School. While Chester was away at college,

his mother and sister moved to Spearfish, South Dakota, and that's where they

finally settled. In 2000, Chester was 19 years old. He had just finished an internship and was six

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