I Came Home Unannounced After Four Years Abroad and Found My Wife Starved and Shaved in the Backyard. My Mother Said She’d Brought It on Herself. I Didn’t Yell

The fallout, when it came, was total.

Faced with a mountain of evidence — the four-year wire trail, the property records, the tax filings, and above all the video I had recorded from behind the fence, in which they condemned themselves in their own voices — my mother and my brother had almost nothing to stand on.

Their lawyers advised them of exactly how little.

In the end both were convicted of grand larceny and criminal medical neglect.

Selina was sentenced to three years.