When a mother and her seven children fell to their deaths from the 11th floor balcony of a hotel in Salt Lake City,

anybody would immediately assume it was a tragic accident.

Unfortunately, that wasn't true and people outside watched in horror as a mother forced her children off the balcony before jumping to her own death.

This is Monsters. Charles Bruce Longo was born in 1938 in Yonkers, New York, the elder of two boys. His parents were said to

not be overly religious. He was raised Episcopalian and he was an altar boy in his youth.

Seen as a window into his later role in life, he was a prolific liar. He usually used that skill to make excuses for why he was

late to school, but it's said that he once convinced a police officer to give him money so he could

run away from his abusive mother. There's no evidence that Charles had ever been abused and used the

money to take a cab to his uncle's house.

After graduating from high school, Charles joined the United States Army, and after basic

training, he was sent to Korea. He eventually returned to the States and began training

as a paratrooper at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He was there that Charles met some other soldiers who were Mormon and

began attending church services with them. He read the book of Mormon and by the time he was

discharged from the army in 1959, his parents said he was fanatical. His mother said that he told her

quote, it was the right answer to everything.

Of course, there was some positive influence by his dedication to the church.

He quit smoking and drinking, which went against the religion's tenets.

Unfortunately, the positives came with even more negatives.

He told his entire family that they were doomed

to hell because they didn't accept the teachings of the LDS Church. He eventually told his godmother

that he was no longer her godson because she wouldn't convert to Mormonism. He moved to Salt

Lake City and enrolled at Brigham Young University, majoring in Spanish.

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