I Know a Murderer

Anastasia Barth
16 min readMay 23, 2022

The title says it all: I know a murderer. He’s a recent murderer. He murdered for the first time September 16, 2020. He’s the only murderer I know. Period. This man I let in my home, I let him hold my child, I let him eat my food, breathe the same air, use my stuff. It’s been about a week (as of the original posting on vocal on September 23, 2020) since this murder happened, and it took me a long time to process it. I know it doesn’t seem like a “long…

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Anastasia Barth

I am a geek, a nerd, a survivor but first and foremost a Mom.