GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. —

Halloween morning 2024, a Dowagiac elementary school art teacher, Gloria White, was murdered by her son, Aidan, who broke into her home. He was living with undiagnosed Schizophrenia.

Gloria’s car still had a brown wig in her passenger seat, prepared to dress up as Bob Ross for her students that day.

Gloria and her daughter, Allyson, would drive Aidan around “begging treatment facilities to take him, and he was turned around at every door.”

The morning of Gloria’s death, Aidan believed something horrific had happened to his family and tried to protect them.

Two days after Gloria’s death, artist Tails Jekel was contacted by Allyson.

“I received an email from Allyson White, basically telling me their story. They said:

‘Hello, my name is Allyson white. I am an a

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