The extraordinary true crime story of a family, a brutal shooting, and
the year that would change their lives forever.
When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod
clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox. Then
everything changed overnight. Her police officer father, John, was
driving to his shift when someone leveled a shotgun at his window. The
blasts that followed left John's jaw on the passenger seat of his
car-literally. While clinging to life, he managed to write down the name
of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. The
suspect? A local ex-con with rumored mob connections. The motive?
Officer Busby was scheduled to testify against the suspect's family in
an upcoming trial. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the family next
door to one under 24-hour armed guard, with police escorts to school,
and no contact with friends. Worse, the shooter was still on the loose,
and it seemed only a matter of time before he'd come after John-or
someone else in the family-again. With few choices left to them, the
Busby family went into hiding, severing all ties to the only life they
had known.