From about 15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am not 100 hundred percent, but I am you.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her but I wanted to love my mother.

This is serial killing a podcast.

Hello again and welcome to serial killing a podcast. My name is Alyssa Carroll and in

this podcast we are going to be veering off the serial killer path to delve into other topics within our beloved true crime community.

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requested episode so we're going to be discussing the Golar Clan. So let's begin. The Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada is an

established wealthy farming community dating back to the very early 1800s but above

that valley in the hills or mountains known as South Mountain lives a far less fortunate group of people.

You see the soil there was not as good and suitable for growing a great many kinds of crops.

So these people traditionally work to make barrels

for the apple or orchards in the valley or they worked as laborers for the orchards.

And then as the years went on, they began to be replaced by machines or other modern technology.

And as these things go, unfortunately, the families up in the hills were left with no job, no paycheck, and many

were bound by poverty.

And so, with this poverty and little to know opportunity, many didn't get much of an education either, and that meant many weren't able to read or write above a lower elementary level. This combination of course led to the

inevitable bullying so it didn't take long for the people who lived above that

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