PG - Advisory: Mature Subject Matter.

When Mason Jenkins murdered his sister with several gunshots to the head, his parents faced a uniquely horrifying problem: Do they turn their backs on their only remaining child? Triple Emmy Award-winner John Kastner is invited into the Jenkin family dynamic—accessing previously unreleased evidence tapes which open old wounds and joining the family during their unsupervised visits with their son in a special cottage “on campus” (where the knives in the kitchen are counted constantly by prison guards who fear Mason may kill again)—in part to remedy an inequity Kastner noticed long ago: victims of crime and their families get much of the media attention, while the families of criminals are shamed and marginalised. Life With Murder is as much about the crime Mason committed—and his own hesitance to take responsibility for his actions—as it is about the effect violent crime has on a family whose unconditional love is all their son has.

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