The overloaded rig lost its brakes on a hairpin, and the crash killed Errol Brannock.

Jaime Jimenez was made the scapegoat and sent to prison for decades; Rufus Hansen simply vanished; and Denton, the last man standing, buried the cargo, bought out the ruined families for pennies, and built a monopoly on top of it all.

I had to stop the recording twice, not because I didn’t understand it but because I understood it too well.

I had married into this family.