Chapter 6: Reckoning
The envelope arrived from Santa Clara County’s Office of the District Attorney. With 28 years of anticipation and dread, Joshua Klaver’s mother slip...
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A sheriff's deputy. His 10-year-old son. A bitter custody battle. A haunting death. Was it suicide? Or something more sinister? Twenty-five years later, authorities decided to take a closer look. So did Mercury News reporter Julia Prodis Sulek. Join her on a whirlwind journey from Silicon Valley to Oklahoma’s cowboy country as she explores a brutal question: How did a 10-year-old boy end up hanging on the family farm?
Chapter 5: Hurting
The coroner returned to the barn in San Martin to re-enact a hanging. And for the first time in almost three decades, something new was added to the o...
Chapter 4: Confronting
K.W. Klaver didn’t know I was coming to Oklahoma. He didn’t know I would show up at the Atoka livestock auction barn on the edge of town. I had come w...
Chapter 3: Connecting
Josh’s mother Kathy Atkins was ready to give up in 2014 when the Facebook message arrived from a stranger. “You don’t know me, but I know that sob kla...
Chapter 2: Presuming
Sheriff’s deputies who responded to the Klaver barn the night of Josh’s death quickly ruled it a suicide, without considering any other possible expla...
Chapter 1: Hanging
A sheriff’s deputy. His young son. A bitter custody battle. A haunting death. Was it suicide or something more sinister? Twenty-five years later, Sant...
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A sheriff's deputy. His 10-year-old son. A bitter custody battle. A haunting death. Was it suicide? Or something more sinister? Twenty-five years late...