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Hi there. This is part two of a two-part series.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, please go back and listen to that now.

It'll all make sense a lot better.

Thank you.

Where we left off, Jane Stafford's oldest son, 16-year-old Alan, had been getting in trouble,

so had been sent to live with the Staffords, Jane, Billy, their son Darren, and

the house guest Ronnie. Before long, Ellen found himself incorporated into Billy's extremely

violent episodes. One day, Alan stole Jane's car and tried to drive it off the wharf, but he was pulled over by the cops first.

He said, quote,

"'Mum, we aren't living. We aren't alive. We're just like robots. We just exist.'"

Around this time, Jane lost a lot of weight.

She was already slim, but now she was gaunt and frail.

She would later say, quote,

Bill took everything from me a bit at a time until there was nothing left but a shell. One night, Jane decided she'd had enough.

She got up in the middle of the night, loaded a shotgun, and then put it against Billy's

head.

But she stopped.

She didn't want Darren, now four years old, to see the mess.

She felt the urge again another night, and again something

stopped her from pulling the trigger. She thought about killing herself, but didn't want to leave

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