On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolise are the deaths of three innocent people -- two of them children. And the man who allegedly took their lives, then eerily planted trees in their honour... was their own husband and father.
Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife Irene died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, when his two young children were also found dead in their beds, suspicions were aroused about Barron. Then, when his fifty-two-year-old mother died, also of asphyxiation in her sleep, the four deaths seemed too coincidental to ignore.
Was this 'devoted' husband and father really a cold-blooded murderer who smothered his loved once while they slept? Was he the victim of a bizarre syndrome, whereby, a parent kills a child to gain sympathy and attention? With first-hand interviews and exclusive inside information, this is a best-selling portrait of a man who may have been driven beyond his control to commit the most unspeakable acts.
