Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

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On October 13, 1983, a Long Island dad named Kevin Katke spent his day at work dealing with bullshit.

Katki was a maintenance engineer at a Macy's department store in Bayshore, a down-on-its luck hamlet about an hour and a half east of New York City.

Katki came home exhausted from a series of disasters at the store.

First, the escalator had broken down.

Then someone poured a vat of grease down a drain,

which caused the pipes to back up all over the building.

Then the elevator stopped working.

He was really tired in a terrible mood when he got home

and his wife was making a racket in the kitchen.

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