She still has trouble sleeping to this day, and wonders whether a diagnosis of narcolepsy a few years ago (she's almost incapable of deep, restorative sleep) was in part brought on by fear. "I'd lost my innocence," Hannah writes, as well as her sense of safety, even at home, and the happy times that her family might have shared if this tragedy had never occurred. Her dad's side of the family grew increasingly distant after that and even stopped getting together for holidays, no one wanting to fully deal with the empty chairs. ( Wilson Billy Robitaille, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and sentenced to death.) He ended up stabbing her and the children to death. She left him alone in the kitchen and, when she returned, caught him rifling through her purse. Per Hannah's account, an ex-convict who was free on a work release program after serving time for a nonviolent offense-a man whom Lee and her husband Stuart had previously let live in the travel trailer in their yard and hired to do odd jobs-knocked on the door one day when Stu was at work and Lee let him in, since he was hardly a stranger. The story was big local news, but she tried to block out what happened for years until she finally went online to learn the whole story. Though her mom told her the next day that her departed family members were "angels in heaven," she wouldn't know for a few days that someone had killed them. She recalls sending that something was wrong one May 2001 night when her father had to dash off and miss her dance recital. When she was 6, Hannah Brown's Aunt LeeLee and two young cousins were murdered at their home in Hamilton, Ala.
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