CONTENTS

PART 1: RELEASE AND RESURRECTION

1.     GARDEN PARTY, JULY 2009

2.     RELEASE DAY, JUNE 2006

3.     THE INVESTIGATION, JULY 2009

4.     GETTING STARTED, JUNE–JULY 2006

5.     JOB, JULY 2006

6.     INVESTIGATION, JULY 2009

7.     SCHOOL, AUGUST 2006

8.     FUNERAL, JULY 27, 2009

9.     APARTMENT, AUGUST 2006

10.    HITTING BOTTOM, NOVEMBER 2006

11.    THE END, AUGUST 2008–JULY 2009

PART II: INFERNO

12.    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

13.    WHERE WAS OUR FAMILY?

WHERE WERE THE LAWYERS?

14.    MILESTONES

15.    NORCO

16.    INFERNO, IN MICHAEL’S WORDS

17.    VISITING 1.0

18.    VISITING 2.0

19.    DIZZY

20.    THE BIGGEST WILDFIRE

IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY

PART III: UNFORGIVING WORLD

21.    FIRE AND ICE

22.    THE SINGLE MOTHER AND

THE GREAT WHITE WHALE

23.    FIRST STEPS

24.    “SIS, RUN!”

25.    GANGBANGING—A DEFINITION

26.    HOW NOT TO HELP YOUR KIDS

27.    THE LIMIT ON HELPING YOUR KIDS

28.    CITY OF ANGELS

29.    THE END

30.    MY HEART’S LOCKET

CODA: WHAT NEXT?

NOTES

A NOTE ON SOURCES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CREDITS