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November 18, 2014

Don Spirit apparently needed help, but it never came

Some people think Don Spirit was evil. How else to explain a man who killed his daughter and her six children, including a newborn, and then killed himself?

Some say he was a coward too proud to reach out for help.

But others believe Spirit is yet another example of a person with a mental illness who snapped.

11/18/2014

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