Here lives the black kitty Cassie made her mother promise to take care of, should anything happen to her. To this day it doesn't seem real. And yet the reality is that Cassie's death has touched millions, made her a teenage legend and given her parents both peace and pain they never imagined. A woman from Waco, Texas, said she was planning to name her daughter after Brad and Misty's only girl. Either you believe what happened to Cassie or you don't.
Some people are very cynical.
The Bernalls have their own criticism - of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office for releasing information to Time magazine about Cassie's death that they had been told was confidential. The Bernalls wrote their book to tell parents it was worth it to snoop, to move, to call the police, to do whatever it takes to keep your children safe. They didn't expect teens would be the ones flooding them with letters. They wrote the book to speak for them. It's new to us, but it's getting more comfortable.