In 1996, Morgan Doizaki was 16 years old when his parents sent him from his LA home to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in Colorado for the summer. When he arrived, his aunt led him through the front door. As she made her way into the kitchen, she noticed the message light blinking on the phone.
That message would change the family’s fortunes and his life forever.
“She pressed play, and there on speaker, one of the messages was Uncle Akira was murdered. He was actually murdered inside the store,” Doizaki recalled. “My aunt left right away, so that has haunted me. I missed my uncle’s funeral, the uncle I had such fond memories of.”…