Episode 322

29:28They said my son was a 47. Eric's bilirubin levels were astronomical. Barron knew that this was serious, but he had no idea why it happened. Why had Eric's levels spiked so severely? Apparently, the person that did his genetic testing didn't submit it right away. And so my son had a genetic disorder called galactosemia, where he can't break down galactose. and galactose is one of the components in lactose. Lactose breaks down into two parts, glucose and galactose. And the glucose gets burned up as fuel and galactose usually gets passed through the body through your urine. But a person that has galactosemia is not able to break that down and that galactose will flow through the bloodstream and get trapped up inside of the brain.

30:21And that's what happened to my son. The nurse from the birthing center had neglected to send Eric's genetic testing off in time. This very serious and life-threatening condition went unchecked, and then Eric was given milk by the birthing center, which was essentially like giving him poison. So the doctors are telling me all these scenarios about how he could die. If he does survive, he's going to be a vegetable. Or best case scenario, if he does survive, he'll have no motor skills, so he won't be able to talk or walk. And fortunately he did survive, but they were correct. Eric was six years old when Barron was shot.

31:03And though he was not a vegetable by any means, he did require constant help as a medically fragile kid. So not only was Dee Dee tending to a frustrated and traumatized husband in a wheelchair, she also had a son in the same condition, plus two teenagers who were terrified that there was a crazed psycho on the loose wanting to kill their stepfather. It was absolute hell for Dee Dee, but she kept a smile on her face the entire time. Just goes to show some women are truly fantastic. She was the rock in this situation as Barron struggled. I wasn't easy to deal with as well. You know, through that rehab, I had, you know, emotional issues.

31:52I had physical issues. So, you know, I had temperaments, you know, obviously with what I went through. My patience was very low and she had, she was the water to my fire, you know, and she made sure that she got me balanced and told me things were going to be okay and we're going to make it. And we had financial issues that we were stressing about and a lot of other things that, you know, we had to deal with that most people don't understand, While Barron worked on his physical rehabilitation, the police were setting their sights on the investigation. They checked out Didi's ex-husband as well as Sharon.

32:30Didi's ex was out of the state at the time of the shooting. And though he admitted to having some beef with Barron, he claimed he had nothing to do with it. He checked out. Sharon said the same thing. In fact, she told cops, The only person I know in Bellevue is my ex-husband, and we rarely talk. The exes were checked off the list for now, and police narrowed their focus on the owner of the shooter's getaway car, Arthur Mendez. Arthur was about the same age as Barron, and he lived in Mount Vernon, a town about an hour and a half away from Barron's house in Bellevue. Instead of just going right up to the door and knocking, Police decided to stake out the Mendez house to see if they could get some activity on the truck.

33:19The red F-150 was the key. Detectives had pulled even more footage from the day of the shooting and now confirmed that the truck had arrived at Barron's apartment two hours before the attack, circled back, and exited. They were also able to secure traffic light footage that showed a clear shot of the passenger in the truck. a slender person wearing a distinctive gold chain. This person, the alleged shooter, also had a habit of tucking the seatbelt under his arm, rather than across his chest. They were certain that this truck was the key to finding Barron's killer. As a group of officers staked out Arthur's house, another team investigated his life on social media.

34:07Arthur was 56 years old. He had a couple of kids, loved Jesus, and was a big football guy. But he had no known ties to Baron Lee. In fact, Arthur wasn't the one who drove the red F-150. It belonged to his son, 17-year-old Quincy Mendez. Quincy was your typical high schooler who flexed on social media by posing for bathroom selfies. He also devoted his life to wrestling and had dreams of joining the military. He worked at a tire shop and drove his F-150 there for every shift, so the cops tracked him. One afternoon, they hit the jackpot when they noticed a friend in the car with him. This friend wore a gold chain and he tucked his seatbelt under his arm, just like the passenger on the surveillance video had.

35:08Bingo. But the detectives had to keep Barron and his family in the dark. Chasing down Quincy was a covert operation and they couldn't risk any gossip. I worked with the detectives. They kept asking me stuff, you know, here and there, but they wouldn't disclose anything that they found. They told me that they wouldn't because they wanted to keep the integrity of the investigation in place. And I said, I understand that. I said, I'm not in a rush. I said, just do what you got to do to make sure you can get a conviction. That's all I care about. The detectives found out that Quincy Mendez went to Mount Vernon High School.

35:47And when they visited the school's administrators, they were able to identify the alleged shooter as Joseph Good. The school administrators confirmed that both Quincy and Joseph were good kids. They never caused any trouble, and they had zero criminal records. Still, it was time to talk with Quincy and Joseph and find out what the hell was going on. At the station, Joseph folded his hands and listened to the detectives. So, before you decide on that, we have some information that we're willing to share with you at this point. Okay. So if you want, before we get into that, you can hear us out about what we have to say and then make a decision about that.

36:31Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, that sounds good. Okay. Yeah. So you're okay with talking to us at this point? Do I have to, like, answer questions and stuff? That's up to you. Like you said, you've ridged your rights to answer questions. You don't have to answer questions. at any time, if you feel uncomfortable, you can just say, yeah, I've heard what you wanted to say. I don't want to answer that. I'd just rather have, like, because I have no idea about any of this stuff, so I'd rather have someone who knows. So, and that's fine. You're more than entitled to that. What we like to do is just have you give us the opportunity to share with you what we have, and then you can make a decision.

37:11Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. Joseph didn't seem to really grasp what was happening. But like a good alleged hitman, he wanted to seem agreeable. So he nodded along as the cops told him about the attempted murder they were investigating in Bellevue. So when, like I said, we had that shooting in Bellevue. After we went back, we found this vehicle pulling into a gas station down in Bellevue. Do you recognize that pickup at all? Kind of, yeah. Kind of? I don't know. You don't know? I'm not sure. You're not sure? You've never seen a pickup before? I know a few people who've owned those. Anybody that you know that owns a pickup like that?

37:59Joseph said his friend Quincy had a truck like that, but they didn't hang out that much anymore. In fact, the last he heard, the clutch went out on Quincy's truck. You just said the clutch had been out for a long time. I was just trying to put a reference on. five, six months? I don't know. Five or six months? I don't know. I'm not exactly sure. Oh. So there's that picture there. Can I get an attorney before I answer all these questions? Yeah. I feel like I'm doing it wrong. That's fine. And just like that, Joseph shut up. Smart boy. Because the cops weren't done with him. Not even close. They started churning out warrants, pulling everything they could from Joseph and Quincy's iCloud accounts.

38:47Instagram, Snapchat, emails, text, you know. The entire profile of your life you put online. At first it was just teenage noise. Selfies, memes, dumb jokes, all useless. But two months in, buried in the noise of selfies and memes, a detective spotted it. An email receipt from Brick House Security. a company that sells GPS trackers. Why would a teenager need a GPS tracker? Barron Lee's car was still in evidence. Investigators checked under the tailgate and lo and behold, there it was. The GPS tracker, still clinging to the frame with a strip of cheap duct tape. The detectives contacted Brickhouse, pulling every record they had related to the serial number on the device, and it was registered to none other than Sharon Kelly, Barron's ex-wife.

39:52Yes, I purchased a GPS tractor from you guys about five years ago, and the subscription, of course, is no longer active. I am able to log in, but it looks like you guys may have changed the website or serviced or whatever that you've used. I want to reactivate that device and then I'm not sure how, I'm not sure how I can, if it's like track view or what. Once your device is activated, it still looks the same. So would you like to reactivate your service or your tracker? I would like to reactivate it. Barron was right. This was all Sharon. and apparently she'd been plotting this for five years.

40:41Now the cops had to figure out how 30-year-old Sharon got two teenage boys to shoot her ex-husband. I'll tell you what, some women out there are pure shit. Anyway, Joseph lawyered up when they took him into custody, but Quincy wasn't quite as smart. Well, yeah, we had an incident in Bellevue, and that's what we're here to talk to you about. They told you what you were arrested for, right? No, they didn't. I was asking, and they were just like, shut up and just wait for the detectives. That's all the SWAT told me. Okay. Yeah. So like we said, it's a pretty serious thing, but as we said, right now we think you're more minimal.

41:27What do you mean by that? Minimal in your involvement in it? Like, I think there's other people that are more... I don't know how to best explain it. So there's other people that obviously have played a greater role in what happened. I got you tomorrow. Oh, that's all. I think as we talk about it, it'll probably make more sense, but... Okay. So to be clear, you're under arrest for an assault. Assault? An assault, yes. And it's a pretty serious one. what salt do you want to solve this do you know what i mean like beating up someone that's one harming another human being yeah harming another human being we also know that there is another person involved that needs to be held accountable for a much larger role in this than than you seem to have played okay and that's a big part of what we're interested in today Right.

42:28There's a reason we're talking to you. So we know there's more to what you guys did when you were in Belfield than what you were telling us. Because we've already talked with him. The detectives told Quincy they already knew what happened, which was, of course, a lie. And now they needed his side of the story. Who falls for that shit? Oh, right, right, right. Dumb people. Which are usually, you know, criminals. Quincy said that when Joseph approached him about driving to Bellevue, he wasn't in his right mind.

43:10Smoking shrooms, huh? To be fair, this cop's drug education probably came from a VHS tape. Quincy admitted that he was at Joseph's house, tripping on shrooms with Joseph's sister, when Joseph came home and said they were going to Bellevue the next day. Joseph said he had something big to do, and there'd be money in it, too. He told you. He told me at the end, like, do you want five grand? I pretty much gave you the option. Okay. I said, yeah. How much did he say he was getting? I don't know. I didn't. That's a standard question. negotiating one-on-one you say well you give me five how are you getting i mean that's a lot of money five grand i mean i just how much does he get in what's his cut uh well i think he said like probably 13.

43:59his cut was 13 yours was five so 18 total or was there another person in there that's getting the cut of that that i i don't know like he just told me for me said it was just he's getting paid and I'm being paid. That was it. So the question becomes where did that money come from? I haven't gotten any money. But what I'm saying is he didn't have that money to pay you. He's getting$13 from somebody. So what does that lead you to believe is happening here? Someone told him to do it. Right? He's being paid. He's breaking you off a piece for being his driver, basically, right? Okay. Quincy swore he had no idea who the money was coming from, but he was high, and$5 ,000 sounded pretty good money was coming from, but he was high, and$5 ,000 sounded pretty good for a drive to Bellevue, even if it was some sketchy shit, like, oh, I don't know, emptying a clip.

45:08Oh, and before you say it's a magazine, not a clip. Just shut the fuck up. What does it mean to take a whole clip? Or cap someone? Shoot someone? But, yeah. But in my head, I was just like, I thought I was just bluffing. Honestly.

45:29Who does your know that could have put him onto a job like that? Put him on a job like that? Yeah. Like, who's going to say, I need somebody to get shot? I know. I'll call. Not anyone I would know of. All my friends are high schoolers. The more they talked, the more it really did seem like Quincy was just the tag along who got roped into something too big for his warped little mind to handle. We are only showing you about 2%. This excruciating interrogation went on for nearly four hours. So was it some scrap you were supposed to go knock off or what? No. You don't know what kind of person? No.

46:17Did you ever find out what kind of person it was? Did you ever talk about it? It could have been just a normal Jomo citizen who's walking down the street? Or was it a gangbanger or what? Who was? The person that was supposed to be taken out. Oh, I don't know. He just talked about the dude, this dude. That was it. He didn't say anything at all. What did he say about the dude? He was just like, this dude right here. I was like, what about him? He's like, we need to unknow the clip. So yeah, he told me. We need to do what? He said again, I didn't. The clip, unknow the clip. Unknow the clip? What does that mean to you?

47:05That he was going to cap him? Yeah. So that's why you're trying to get your side. I'm telling you guys straight up. I'm being honest. I'm being everything I am right now to be helpful to you guys right now. I do not know who he's connected with. I do not know who his big homies are. He told me I did it. It was fucked up that I did it. I regret it. I shouldn't have to just remind him of anything. But I don't know who his connections are. But the cops didn't need Quincy to confirm what they already knew. Sharon Kelly was behind it. They had the brick house GPS data. They had the emails to Joseph.

47:44They also had the texts between Sharon and the boys solidifying their guilt. And the conversation between Sharon and Joseph was that the job wasn't done, that they'll need to go back. and Joseph will say, well, we need money up front because you didn't pay us anything yet. So we need some of that money or at least half up front. And apparently Quincy said he didn't want to take part of any of it, didn't want to participate or help or have anything to do with it anymore. So when the cop showed up at Sharon's door with handcuffs, she didn't ask, what is this all about? She didn't feign ignorance.

48:23She dropped her coffee cup and screamed inside to her brother, Call my lawyer. But what still haunted detectives was the question no evidence could answer. Why? Why would the mother of a special needs child who saw him every weekend hire teenage boys to kill her ex-husband? Sharon wasn't going to talk, but the cops didn't need her to. Because Baron was alive and willing to tell them everything.

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51:08In early July of 2020, Baron Lee was shot nine times by a teenage hitman. He should have died, but somehow he didn't. Now his ex-wife Sharon Kelly sat behind bars, the mastermind of it all. She wasn't talking. But to her dismay, Barron was alive. And he remembered everything. Because what no one knew then was that Sharon hadn't just tried to kill him once. She'd been laying the groundwork for years. She had tried to run me over twice prior. Once in 2015. This is before I ended up fleeing the state of Washington because I wasn't getting help. She actually had me on her hood, and she tried to hit me.

51:57I ended up jumping up and ended up on her hood, and she drove a couple hundred yards before I was able to roll off the car and get away from her. The second time was in front of the Kirkland Police Department during a custody transfer, and they said that basically it was a domestic issue and that we would have to deal with it in family court, which just boggled my mind. So someone tries to kill me, but it's a family issue. So I ended up going to family court, and I'm told in family court that we just need to learn to co-parent better. Sharon and Barron's amicable phase was short-lived. They met online in 2005.

52:37Barron was working in Nevada at the time, and Sharon was young, pretty, and looking for someone to take care of her. Though they were over a decade apart, they pursued a relationship through phone calls and texts. And before long, Sharon left Washington to meet Barron in Nevada. And she wanted to come down to Vegas, and she asked if it was okay to bring her two younger brothers with her to meet me and, you know, stay a couple weeks. And so I was like, yeah, you know, if you want to come down and visit, no problem. You know, I was single at the time. Nobody lived with me, and, you know, I had space.

53:14So she came down to Vegas and she brought her brother Timmy and her brother Joshua, who were like five and, I want to say five and seven or five and eight at the time. With her young brothers in tow, Sharon showed up in Las Vegas and surprisingly, Barron welcomed them with open arms. Being a product of the foster care system himself, Barron just couldn't turn anyone away. We hit it off. And then, you know, the interaction I had with her brothers surprised her as well. Her brothers were so used to just doing whatever they wanted and having, you know, no discipline. And so when they came to stay with me, you know, set some ground rules.

53:57And basically the way they treated her was not very good. And, you know, I told them that's not, you know, allowed, you know, and that kind of stuff. And started parenting them. and the two weeks that they were going to stay ended up turning into like four months staying with me. Their relationship moved quickly. They decided to move back to Washington so Sharon could be closer to family. Barron agreed without hesitation. After settling in, they got married. Barron believed they shared the same ambitions, a driven, adventurous future. Sharon had a way with words. Soon, they decided to start a family.

54:39Then Eric was born. His birth was traumatic, leaving him severely medically fragile. Barron stepped up. Sharon did not. I worked in the car industry at the time. I worked for Toyota. And I worked 12-hour days. I'd get up in the morning at 6, and I'd come home about 6. and I would find Eric soaking wet in his walker or his little walker thing and he'd be crying and screaming and Sharon would be sitting on the couch watching Korean dramas or whatever it is that she was watching and she would say, oh yeah, he's been like that all day and I'm like, then why aren't you changing him? Why aren't you doing anything?

55:20It would take me three, four hours to calm him down because he had been in that high emotional state for so long. Whether she was depressed, overwhelmed, or just plain lazy, Sharon's mothering went from bad to worse. Barron knew things were unmanageable. He tried to get help for his wife, but she insisted she was fine, and so was Eric. So the last job for me was that I found out that she was having Eric, someone babysit Eric. Like, they're not medically trained to babysit him, but they were babysitting him while she was going out and having an affair. Barron had enough. Not out of anger, but fear.

56:06His son Eric's health was on the line. With dystonia and kernicterus, every day required constant specialized care, and Sharon couldn't handle it. She wasn't just failing as a mother. She couldn't even be trusted as his nurse. and so I was like okay I'm done you know like this is it so I came home one day and I picked up Eric and I was trying to leave the house and she's asking what you're doing and I'm saying I'm leaving I'm taking Eric with me and she got mad and started pulling on Eric and I was afraid he was going to get hurt so I gave him to her and she starts screaming you know like she's being abused or something and just at the top of her boy she's screaming and the neighbors end up calling the police and the police come and she says, oh yeah, that I'm abusing her and abusing my son, breaking furniture and doing all this stuff.

57:00And I'm like, I haven't even touched her. I haven't done anything to her and I haven't broken anything. And so the police do their investigation and they realize that none of what she's saying is true. But they advise that one of us leave. And I said, well, she has my son. If she wants to go and leave with him, then go ahead. I'll just deal with it in court. And so she takes off. It was the point of no return. Two weeks later, Sharon filed a restraining order and the state put Eric in her care. That's what the state does. Favors women in situations like this. It happens all the time. Must be that male privilege I keep hearing about.

57:45That's when the war started. For the next five years, Barron fought for custody while Sharon played the system, demanding support and collecting benefits. Her son wasn't a child-doer anymore. He was a paycheck. At least, that's what her family convinced her of. The woman Barron had fallen in love with had transformed into a bitter, entitled mother who expected sympathy from the world because she had a special-needs child. A lot of that going around these days. her family are you know um what we call them career welfare cases you know and then her mom basically lives off welfare uses welfare because she has multiple kids so she uses welfare to to survive and their mentality and i saw this in text where like you know oh you can do this this this you don't have to work you know you can you know get welfare you can live off his child support So it was more of like, oh, you know, I don't have to do anything anymore and I can, you know, abuse the system and that type of stuff.

58:58It became clear that Sharon wanted sole custody of Eric, not to care for him, but because there was a million dollar settlement tied to his birth injury. Though they could not sue the birthing center directly, the insurance paid them for what happened to Eric. I took that money and I put it into a special needs trust. So later on when Eric's 18, hopefully that money will grow and help, you know, take care of him when we're not there anymore. One of the things that I found when we broke up, because I had access to all of her phone records as well. And so there was text messages where she had planned, you know, to siphon money out of our accounts.

59:41Also, when we break up, that they were going to utilize the courts to force me to pay child support, and that eventually she's wanting to get access to the trust fund money. Sharon had custody of Eric until he was three years old. And during that time, she did her best to put him in a more medically fragile state, demanding a feeding tube, a tracheotomy, and a do-not-resuscitate order. All things doctors said he didn't need. So she hospital-shopped until she got the feeding tube and the DNR. What a bitch. During this time, I expressed a ton of concerns because he was being hospitalized, he was being sick, she was trying to do things that didn't seem appropriate.

1:00:33But because I didn't have medical making decisions, she was able to go to the hospitals and convey what she wanted. That's when CPS stepped in. Sharon was diagnosed with Munchhausen by proxy and deemed unfit. Eric was placed in foster care pending a parenting plan. For Barron, it was a nightmare, a legal disaster. her. His life narrowed to one goal, bringing Eric home. But the courts leaned towards Sharon. I wonder why. Oh, right, right. Female. This was despite her erratic behavior and her obvious lack of concern for her own child's well-being. Then came 2017, a custody exchange at the Kirkland police station.

1:01:31Sharon didn't just lose control, she threw Eric on the floor instead of placing him in a wheelchair. That changed everything. For the first time, someone besides Barron saw her rage firsthand. Barron and Deedee took Eric home. He stayed with them full-time, but legally Sharon was still considered the primary caregiver. Let's face it, the family court system is more than broken. It's pure shit. Anyway, Barron didn't want her to have contact with Eric for obvious reasons. Shared custody was just not an option for him. She was after Eric. It was the way that Eric was being hospitalized or the things that she was doing.

1:02:17It looked to me like she wanted him to die, but in a way that no one was going to question her and say that it's because he's medically fragile or this is the cause of his death. It's because he had complications. There was one incident where Eric's home nurse aide found him nearly dead at Sharon's house and he had to be rushed to the hospital. Things like this just kept happening. And here's the thing is the family court system ignored it all. Like the GAL was saying, hey, this boy is not safe around her. And they ignored it all. When it came to whatever she did, it doesn't matter who spoke on my behalf, whether it was me, whether it was a GAL, whether it was a social worker, it didn't matter.

1:03:04The courts never listened. Barron and Dee Dee cared for Eric while Sharon had visitation. What she really wanted was money. If Barron was gone and Eric returned to her care, she thought she could get it. So she went through her little brother, the same one Barron once looked after in Vegas, and she found Joseph Good, setting in motion her final plot to get rid of her ex-husband. Sharon's little brother put the word out amongst his friends at high school, and Joseph took the bait. It was that easy. With Barron dead, the money would be all hers. money, money, money, money. Or so she thought. But what Sharon didn't realize is the way the trust is set up, unless it's needed for medical reasons, that money will never be pulled out.

1:04:00And it can't be pulled out as cash. It's going to be pulled out to pay for medical reasons only. So in other words, if there's a medical bill, then it goes directly to the medical company, not to us, and then we pay the medical company. But that wasn't what she thought. She thought she would have access to it. For years, Sharon had threatened Barron, and worse, their son. But what she did was so outrageous, so unhinged, that when Barron spoke up, he sounded like a man describing the plot of a bad movie. No one believed him, and the family courts only emboldened her. Every time Eric landed in the hospital or CPS got involved, she was given a pass because she's the mom.

1:04:48Years of getting away with it convinced her of one thing. She could get away with murder. As horrible as you may think that the shooting was, the shooting was the best thing that happened to me. The shooting gave me a voice. A lot of men go through this and this is one of the hardest things as a man sitting on an island by yourself I was telling people what was going on at work my personal life my family and I would always get that eye roll you know not you know not blatant but you could tell like yeah he's full of shit type of look right like oh he's not telling all the truth or he's exaggerating but the shooting allowed people to see that now what I say is true, right?

1:05:37Like what I've been saying all my life is true. Joseph Good was charged with attempted murder and unlawful possession of a firearm, then sentenced to 13 years in prison. Quincy Mendez received eight years for the assault on Barron and was sent to a juvenile detention center. Barron has since forgiven both of the boys. Sharon, on the other hand, was eventually offered a plea deal, taking her charge down to solicitation of attempted murder in the second degree. She'd be looking at 13 years, not 25. Then, for shits and giggles, they lowered her charge a smidge more. Probably because of the tits and puss, you know?

1:06:23But in the plea deal, the prosecutor offered her 150 months. and my argument to the courts was that the fact that they were reducing the plea, she should have got the maximum of the reduction plea, not an agreed average of that plea. So the reason I wanted that was, one, at 150 months, she would get out when Eric is 17. And my concern is that I'd have to deal with this family court bullshit, again, And on top of having to deal with her trying to kill me. So I told the court that, one, she shouldn't get less time than the shooter or the driver. So she should get the maximum 165 months, which will allow me to set up guardianship and do everything that's needed before she gets out.

1:07:14So Eric will already be 18 by the time she gets out. It was abysmal. It was outrageous. How could Sharon receive a lighter sentence than the teenagers she hired to shoot Barron? Without her, none of this would have ever happened. That's what appalled me the most. I even stated that in court, the fact that she not just ruined my life and my son's life, but she ruined two teenagers as well. She deserves a lot more than what she was given. Sharon is behind bars, and she'll be there until her son turns 18. But for now, one legal problem remains that Barron is still trying to fight. Technically, Sharon still has custody.

1:08:03I wanted to go to trial and get custody, but she was in county for three years, and during that time, they wouldn't allow me to move forward with a family court case, saying that she had a right to be there and that I couldn't move forward. So this whole time I've been waiting to get custody. And because it took so long, they closed the case. And I had to petition to reopen the family court case so I can still fight for custody. I still don't have custody. It's unbelievable, but Barron is still fighting for custody, for control, for peace. Sharon is behind bars for literal murder, but not forever.

1:08:44One day she'll walk free, and as co-parents, their paths will cross again. Can you imagine? They share a child. Not just any child, but Eric. A non-verbal, vulnerable boy who'll need care for the rest of his life. Will he ever say he wants to see his mother? Will she even care now that the money's gone? Sharon Kelly was evil. Not misguided, just plain evil. Munchausen by proxy, delusions of grandeur, abusing a medically fragile child. She was dangerous and calculated, and for years she had Eric all to herself. Baron still lies awake wondering what she did during that time. the early years shape a child forever, and if she left him in filth when they were married, threw him on the police station floor in front of strangers, then what actually happened behind closed doors when she was alone, when she could get away with anything?

1:09:50But Barron can't live in those shadows. Not anymore. This isn't just about Sharon's twisted plan to kill Barron. It's about the man who survived it, to be a father. That should have been the end of it, but it wasn't. It was the start of something bigger, a second chance for Barron. Now, he's on the advisory board of a non-profit organization for foster children called Route 21, and he's fighting to change the system, pushing laws to protect fathers and family court, including one bill in the House and another in the Senate. And at home, with his wife Dee Dee and his kids, he's building the life Sharon tried to destroy.

1:10:38Barron didn't just survive by luck. He survived for a reason. For Eric. Everything he does is for his son. What a great dad. The shooting didn't ruin him. It revealed the truth. Sharon is a threat. And in 2036, she'll be out. Free to roam, free to plot. Baron knows she's not done. After 13 years in a cell to stew on vengeance. So maybe he'll move to another state, another country, whatever it takes. Because in 13 years, he'll need to disappear before she finds him again and does even worse. who knows what that bitch is capable of.

1:12:07Well, that episode was produced by Mish Barber-Way, one of our long-term producers. We've had producers here for, I don't know, what, six, seven, eight years now? So it's hard to keep track of how long they've been around. She's very talented, though. Very talented lady. Always puts out great stuff. I'm your host, Mike Boudet, in case you're lost. Just browsing through the Apple catalog. If you like this show, you can help support it. You can go find a lot more of it at swordscale.com or download our app on iOS and Android.

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