In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come…   Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada.   Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested.   What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them. Now an Investigation Discovery TV Special Praise for Donna Fielder   “Fascinating…a crime story that outshines the imagination of fiction crime writers.”—DentonRC.com  “Nerve-wrecking twists…plenty of insider and first-hand research.”—TrueCrimeZine.com Donna Fielder , national bestselling author of  Ladykiller,  is an award-winning veteran journalist in the areas of investigative reporting, crime, courts, lifestyle, and arts. She has been featured on  Dateline NBC ,  Women Behind Bars , and  Psychic Detectives . She has worked with  48 Hours  and has had weekly columns in the  Denton Record-Chronicle,  and her crime stories have regularly appeared in the  Dallas Morning News .