If Walls Could Talk: The High Price of a Picture-Perfect Family

One woman's incredible true story as a survivor of partner abuse—and the shocking murder that ended it all.

How could I have let this happen?

This was the torturous question circling through Sandee Jo Schankweiler’s mind as flashing red and blue lights cast eerie images against the backdrop of trees surrounding her home in rural Tennessee. In disbelief, she watched as a police officer placed his hand on the top of her seventeen-year-old son’s head to guide him into the back seat of a patro...