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While Ted survived his failed suicide attempt and was quickly shielded by the law’s declaration of insanity, Susan was swept into a welfare system wholly unprepared — and unwilling — to protect her. Within days, she became a ward of the state and was placed in a home defined not by safety but by danger: a household marked by criminality, predation and neglect.The press barely noted the tragedy; the institutions charged with safeguarding children like Susan moved on with bureaucratic indifference. Yet for the girl who had witnessed her brother’s death, there was no moving on. Her childhood unfolded within a maze of state-run facilities, court orders, psychiatric assessments and the quiet cruelties of adults who did not see her — or did not care to.Drawing on court transcripts, psychiatric files, government records, and interviews with those still marked by the events of 1971, A Whispering of Trees lays bare a case that reveals more than a single crime. 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