We Don't Talk About That: One Family's Journey to the Other Side of Tragedy

When Amanda Schoepp was thirteen, she took a sleeper train with her grandfather from Los Angeles to New Orleans. On that trip, he shared how his parents died. It wasn't cancer or old age or pickled livers-it was murder-suicide.

For him to share this was rare because, following the 1963 tragedy, an unspoken agreement became oath among immediate family: Never discuss it.

Avoidance was seemingly easier than facing the pain, and the elders passed that belief on through generations.

Until now.

Lever...