Welcome to part two of our interview with author Trudy J. Smith about white Christmas, bloody Christmas.

This family and this father who's committing these horrible acts on his children,

and then the shame and then the fear of being caught is essentially, I mean, I mean,

I know there's a lot of, you know, moving parts

here, but if we were to summarize this into a sentence, you know, that's essentially the reason

as to why he did this at that time on Christmas Day and took the lives of his family. Would that

be accurate? Well, I still don't know why he chose Christmas Day. Now, he would not let them

celebrate Christmas that Christmas. And he told them he had a, quote, surprise for them.

Did he ever? Yeah. Now, but still, there were friends in the area, little girlfriends of Marie's,

her age, that said a week or two before the murders that Marie went out with them looking for greenery to decorate with and everything, you know, for Christmas.

That's what they did back then.

You think they're just storing by fancy things.

But the day of the murders, when you read my book and see the pictures,

and the report from the reporter that was there next morning,

there was no Christmas, there was no Christmas decorations or anything that looked like it might have been presents or anything there inside the house.

Well, it makes you wonder if maybe the timing of it just happened to be at Christmas Day.

Maybe, you know, he had mentioned had this word get out, there's going to be some kill.

And maybe this just all kind of culminated at that time.

And word got out at that time.

And that happens to be when, you know, when everything occurred.

Now, I know that there's obviously been a lot of story and whether it be rumor,

whether it be urban legend, whatever you want to call it,

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