

Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S.

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