As I’ve said, I’ve come across the part of my family tree that is from Idaho and Utah. These people had at least as much drama in their life as Californians do. Divorce rate was just as high. Most of them polygamists in the 1800s. I found an article where my grandmother’s brother had her arrested for assault!

And the icing on the cake: my grandfather’s sister was murdered in SLC in the 1960s, and the story didn’t even make the first section of the newspaper. Some dude got angry at her, dragged her out of the place she worked, and shot her dead on the spot. Didn’t even make the first section of the paper…must not have been earth shattering news in SLC.

He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The great state of Utah let him out after 12 years and he kidnapped another woman. Luckily someone intervened or she would have been dead also as he had a loaded 357 on him. Back to prison he went.

Yes, that place is so much better than California!