At 2:27 a.m., My Dad Called: “Your Sister-in-Law Beat Me with a Baseball Bat—But She Told Police I Attacked Her Because I’m Mentally Ill”

weaker and more disoriented, then present it to Eric as proof their father was declining. When Dad tried to leave the house one afternoon to go to his own doctor’s appointment, Vanessa had blocked the door and, according to him, restrained his wrists with zip ties “for his own safety,” she’d told him, so he wouldn’t “hurt himself falling.”

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