Sneak peek: The Year We Disappeared | Forensic Files

[Music] imagine being 9 years old and learning that someone wanted to kill you your dad your brothers and your
mom that's what I found out when I was 9 years [Music] old it All Began on a perfect summer day
it was the end of summer August it was hot sunny not a cloud in the sky and we spent all day at the
beach and everything was ideal until that night when everything changed my uncle was a police officer
and he worked the midnight shift my dad left for work just like normal he hadn't gone probably half a
mile from our house when a car pulled up behind him pulled out alongside him and
he was shot through the driver side window of his car with a shotgun the shotgun blast tore through
his face and ripped off his lower jaw before he lost Consciousness he wrote not an accident he realized that
they were trying to kill him and he feared for his family's life on that summer night my childhood
ended I was never alone again we were guarded 24 hours a day everybody had a gun we were fenced in
we had an attack dog we had a sniper on the roof with a long range rifle you couldn't go out I had hidden a steak
knife under my mattress and I would just lay there and listen I just knew that the people who
shot my father were not going to stop until we were all dead [Music]

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Brief Summary

A childhood is shattered when the speaker's father is shot in a targeted attack, leading to a life of fear and constant protection.

Key points

A Perfect Summer Day. A seemingly idyllic summer day turns into a nightmare.
The Attack. A shocking ambush leaves a family in fear for their lives.
Life After the Attack. The family lives in constant fear and protection.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

They were trying to kill him.

Describing the moment of realization during the attack.

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