It was a cold rainy day when the Willow family headed out to get groceries. They stopped at the bank to deposit Mrs. Willow's paycheck into the bank. When they came out of the bank they saw a dark glass window black sedan pull up. All of a sudden four men got out of the car and stepped in front of Mr. and Mrs. Wiillow with guns pulled on them they were shot at a very close range . They later died at the hospital.
A judge would order Marla to live with her uncle Anthony. Her mother never wanted her to know her side of the family. It didn't make any sense to Marla when she was younger but now knowing what kind of people her uncle and his cronies was. They dealt in everything that was illegal. Marla's parents had testified against her father and some of the others for racketeering and went into the witness protection program.
Every time they get settled into a nice place somebody would leak their where abouts and they would be uprooted and taken somewhere else. Marla was in the park across the street walking her dobie nicknamed the red devil. His actual name was Satan but her mother didn't like that name so she called him Butch. Marla called him the Butcher. He tore up everything in his sight. She remembered when they got him. It was close to christmas and her father came home for lunch then went back to work as a truck driver for the USPS. Later after putting Marla and her two brothers to bed Mrs. Willow heard a noise in the garage .