You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of the missing, the

murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.

This week's episode discusses child murder and sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

When a family, particularly a family with young children is visited by tragedy,

you'd think they'd had enough.

That somehow their quota of bad news, loss, and grief was met.

Once someone they loved died by violence, they should be spared from enduring it yet again.

And I'm certain that by 1995, Kathy Barnes, a mother of three in her 30s was ready to say uncle,

to beg the universe to spare her and her young children

from any more tragedy after losing her husband

to a violent murder, leaving her with three children under the age of six.

The subject of today's episode, Barbara Barnes, was just six years old in January of 1989, when father Gary was murdered. The man responsible

for her father's death, Louis Duggan, continues to serve a life sentence for the crime.

Looking at Barbara and her two younger siblings,

children who lost a parent at a young age,

one would think they should be spared anything further

that the universe would call a moratorium on tragedy,

allowing them to resume something resembling a normal life.

That was not the case.

You wouldn't think it was possible, but things are about to get harder for them.

Their young lives more tragic and complicated.

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