Twenty-five years after the fact, a medical examiner and sheriff are investigating anew the death of a 10-year-old boy found hanging in the slaughter room of a barn. At the time, investigators thought the boy was upset by his parents' intense custody battle, but now the boy's father, a sheriff's deputy who had a history of abuse, is facing increasing scrutiny.
From Mercury News:
Read Full Article »One of the many things that has always troubled Josh's mother is the timing of his death: He was supposed to sit down the next morning before a family court judge and finally speak for himself. Was he planning to choose one parent over the other? Could that prospect have precipitated his death?
Could this 10-year-old boy have been so desperate, so confused, so scared, that he threw a rope over the meat rail in the barn, wrapped a noose around his neck and jumped? Before the age of Google, could he even have known how?
Or could something more sinister have happened to the boy before Klaver's wife at the time, Bobbi, returned home to find her husband inside the house while Josh was hanging in the barn?
