The documentary called “Hanging: the mysterious case of the boy in the barn” written by Julia Prodis Sulek touches base on a unique phenomenon that these parents known as the Klaver are facing with. A catastrophic incident has occurred almost twenty-five years ago, which involved a young child by the name of Joshua Klaver, who was fatally being lynched. Whether the death of Josh was simply a suicide or even a homicide, still remains to be a mystery. In this critical analysis, we will be breaking down layers of Julia’s perspective of the story and also the interviews that she has conducted. Critiques’ will appropriately be made if holes are found in her writing. For starter, Julia’s writing seems to be bias against K.W. Klaver, who is the
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Maybe she should have emphasized her drug abuse issue before being around him. We do not know as outsiders, if she was also an abuser to Joshua as well, since he sometimes preferred to stay with K.W. However, to play devil’s advocate, Julia has made legitimate arguments that K.W. in fact is responsible for the death of Josh and would even go as far to claim that possibly, he murdered the boy. This is not solely on the perception that he was a child abuser and emotionally ill. According to Julia, K.W. was a former Santa Clara county sheriff and ironically happened to be the deputy for the Joshua Klaver murder case. Joe Fortino was also an active deputy on this case. Both deputies, prematurely assumed that this case was nothing more than a suicide. Anybody’s instant reaction would be denial based on his age. Why would a young child have suicide on his mind? Yes, he was raised in a corrupted family. However, anybody can assume that the narrative is completely false. Sergeant Egge who was the homicide detective, even admits that errors were made. One of the top two mistakes most investigators make is to assume it is a homicide murder based on initial reports and that investigators take short cuts when they hear suicide (Hanging Chp. 2). Two valid proofs that perhaps the death of Josh was nothing more than a
Maybe she should have emphasized her drug abuse issue before being around him. We do not know as outsiders, if she was also an abuser to Joshua as well, since he sometimes preferred to stay with K.W. However, to play devil’s advocate, Julia has made legitimate arguments that K.W. in fact is responsible for the death of Josh and would even go as far to claim that possibly, he murdered the boy. This is not solely on the perception that he was a child abuser and emotionally ill. According to Julia, K.W. was a former Santa Clara county sheriff and ironically happened to be the deputy for the Joshua Klaver murder case. Joe Fortino was also an active deputy on this case. Both deputies, prematurely assumed that this case was nothing more than a suicide. Anybody’s instant reaction would be denial based on his age. Why would a young child have suicide on his mind? Yes, he was raised in a corrupted family. However, anybody can assume that the narrative is completely false. Sergeant Egge who was the homicide detective, even admits that errors were made. One of the top two mistakes most investigators make is to assume it is a homicide murder based on initial reports and that investigators take short cuts when they hear suicide (Hanging Chp. 2). Two valid proofs that perhaps the death of Josh was nothing more than a