- Michael Abt is the sole survivor of a 1976 mass murder that claimed the lives of five family members and a family friend.
- The murders were committed by George Geschwendt, a childhood friend and neighbor who held a grudge against the Abt brothers.
- Fifty years later, Abt continues to grapple with the trauma and emotional weight of losing his family.
For more than half his life, Michael Abt has wondered every day why he’s alive.
His eyesight is failing. His hearing is shot. COPD makes it hard to breathe. The searing pain in his feet never leaves him for long.
He should have died 20 years ago after he was diagnosed with late-stage mouth cancer. But here he is. He made it through radiation without a feeding tube, something his doctor never heard of before…