Mary Yoder was a beloved fixture of her community as a chiropractor along with her husband. She kept a strict routine, was close to her children, and seemingly had never done anything cruel. It was a major surprise when in July 2015, she took ill and was hospitalized with vomiting, sweating, and got weaker and weaker. What was assumed to be food poisoning quickly turned life threatening and she quickly passed away. Baffled, her family began to grieve, only to be given the startling news that their beloved Mary had been murdered by being deliberately poisoned with colchicine. Pretty soon it became pretty clear that her son Adam’s brief illness from a few month before may not have been a food poisonings either. Popular and well-loved office assistant Kaitlyn Conley, Adam’s ex-girlfriend, quickly became a suspect.
Narrator Danny Campbell tells the story with her soft and folksy voice, giving the leader the full power of how destructive and painful this was for the Yoder family. The book by M. William Phelps is full of facts and acts as an interesting murder mystery, but it’s Campbell’s narration that makes it personal. We Thought We Knew You is at times hard to stomach for the listener, especially when one questions how someone could hurt someone as kind and dedicated as Mary Yoder. This audiobook is one where listeners will find themselves not wanting to hit pause once they hit play.
We Thought We Knew You is now available in audiobook or book format.
