In college, I minored in psychology. I've always been fascinated by human behavior and what drives us to take certain actions.

My attention was wrapped when learning about Milgram's shock experiment, about Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, and about Ashes' conformity experiment, among others.

I could spend hours thinking and talking about nature versus nurture, and to what extent we are who we are, because we were born

that way and biologically predisposed to certain traits, or whether our environment is what

truly shapes us, or to what degree it's both.

Our episode this week will be a bit different in that I'm not going to talk about one crime,

that several, all perpetrated by members of one family. We'll talk about psychology and intergenerational crime. We'll talk about the

justice system. And we'll talk about the victims of unthinkable crime after unthinkable crime.

This episode covers the crimes of Billy Mansfield, Jr.

Music of Billy Mansfield, Jr. Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold. My name is Allison Williams. And my name is Maggie Damran. We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement

so justice and closure can be brought to these families with each case we encourage you to

continue in the conversation on our facebook page coffee in cases podcast because as we all know

conversation helps to keep the missing person in the public consciousness helping keep their

memories alive.

So sit back, sip your coffee, and listen to what's brewing this week.

Prior to a few months ago, I had not heard of Billy Mansfield Jr.

However, a representative from Relativity Media reached out concerning a movie that will actually be released this week,

tomorrow, in fact, called The Man in the White Van, starring Madison Wolfe, Sean Aston,

Allie Larder, and so many other talented actors. For the film, director Warren Skeels,

who, Fun Fact, also directed Cesta Key on MTV, heard a story from a survivor that stuck

with him so much so that he knew he had to tell the story, and in doing so, he wanted to focus on

the victims. So after I tell you about the crimes, listeners, I'll include the interview I did with skills in which he talks

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