The case where the hitchhiker with the ax is in trouble
Was Kai a victim of assault and abuse?
At the time, surprising were the comments Kai made—on camera—to Reisbeck and others about violent encounters, as well as disturbing Facebook posts (see in the documentary. ) seems to indicate his personal knowledge of child abuse.
“I was in an orchard this time and this f-king guy started hitting a woman,” Kai recalls in his original Fresno interview, and his reaction was to start “smash him in the head”.
He also said at the time that he had no family, that “for anyone I grew up with, I’m dead.”
Speaking to Reisbeck in Stockton, Kai alleges that he was attacked and raped by a man when he was 17 years old. And, Kai said, as a kid, he was locked in a cage for four years.
In the documentary, his mother, Shirley, said there was a “short period” when she took measures to prevent Caleb (her son’s real name) from waking up too early so he wouldn’t “soak in things that could harm him” when still very small. She did not specify what she did, but said she “never locked him in his room.”
Shirley (person doesn’t want her last name to be used in documents or in media reports regarding her son) says from Canada, where Kai was born—as opposed to West Virginia, where Kai once told Reisbeck he was from.