The Issue: Our Father, John W. Leonard, Sr., was brutally murdered on September 8, 1970, while driving his taxicab to Buck Hill Falls Inn. He was found shot to death with several gunshots to the head. Two years later, our Mother, Madeleine G. Leonard, met a similar mysterious fate. On February 21, 1973, she had been waitressing at a Rotary Dinner at the Top Hat Restaurant in Mountainhome, PA. Around 10:00 pm, she called my twin sister and me, stating, "I am going to Mt. Pocono to check out a lead on your father's murder and will be home shortly." Tragically, she never returned home. She died in a suspicious car crash. The funeral home demanded we provide a high collar blouse covering her neck up to the jaw line be provided for her funeral. In 2022, the county coroner confirmed that Madeleine's cause of death "a broken neck is not consistent with that car crash". Sadly, no further investigation was done.