What TV Did Not Tell About This Sicko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           Tom Bonney was the cliche of the Southern patriarch--Right Wing, morally over zealous, having to control everyone in his house, and, what with a wife and two daughters, that meant complete subjugation of women!

                                            This sick thing, now behind bars, murdered his own daughter, Kathy, just 19, and chaffing at the bit her father was forcing into her adolescent mouth.

                                              Like any adept teen, Kathy found ways to get around it.  She snuck out on dates, and trips to the mall, because her father was SO moral (Hah!!!!) he would not let her do this on her own!  She even had an affair with a married employee in her father's business.

                                              According to most accounts, her father was a moral nut, who thought his family should be pure and loving, like "The Waltons!"  Hey, Tom, I got news for you!  CBS censored an episode, that had been filmed, about Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) getting her first period, and what about that "urban legend episode," where John Boy is caught, performing an unnatural act, behind the barn?????  And Will Geer, who played Grandpa, was gay!!!!! So, who are you kidding, Tom?

                                                Kathy was creative.  She wanted to be a writer, and she kept a diary, and other writings!!!!   Her only mistake was not keeping them under more lock and key!  If she had, her father never would have found them, and she would most likely be alive today, since, working a secretarial job, she had saved up enough money, so she could move out, and get her own place!  Smart girl!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  Alas, sicko Daddy found this very explicit letter.  Whether it was written to her lover, John, or was just a piece of fiction she was working on, is not clear.  What is clear is that, on a dark night, November 21, 1987, near Chesapeake, Virginia, Kathy and Tom went for a ride to talk.  He  confronted her with the letter, she countered, and, before you know it, with his "Waltons" fantasy and authority shattered, he snapped, and shot her, 27 times!

                                                  What wasn't told was that I think, once he found the note, he planned to kill her, for control!  Kathy's younger sister had told police, she had awakened one night, to find her father standing over her in bed, with a knife!   And here is what I think needs to be explored!

                                                    Tom Bonney killed his daughter, and had he not been caught, would have found opportunity to kill his younger girl, because he was fighting repressed incestuous desires!  That is right!  Tom Bonney had the desires and instincts of a sexual predator.  His moral zealousness kept him from acting on them, but when confronted with the letter, indicating his own daughter had adult, sexual desires, (which are normal!!!!) he was confronted with his for his daughters, and so Kathy, and, eventually, her sister, would have to be eliminated!!!!

                                                      Kathy's death, tragic though it was, probably helped save her sister's life!
Because now Daddy cannot ever get at her again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        I don't know, girls, if Tom's wife stayed married to him, or threw him out, like the rotten garbage he was, as she should have!  "Stand By Your Man" is a great song by Tammy Wynette, but, at times like this, it is a load of crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                          Rot in jail, Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!