Chapter Twenty-Four Kennedy The news of Jude had spread all across the country; it was everywhere. It turned out that he wasn’t abused at all. Never once did he have to work to pay the rent like he’d claimed. He only said those things to get sympathy from others. Friends of his adoptive parents said that Shirley and Henry loved Jude and gave him everything he could ever want. Some of them even admitted they were afraid of Jude and wouldn’t be surprised if he’d killed Henry just to get the insurance money. After Henry died, Jude had gotten everything which turned out to be half a million dollars. You couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing our story on every news station. And of all things, there were even talk show hosts talking about it and how it wouldn’t surprise them if a movie was

