Murdered for Millions

The son Dana in this tragic tale wasn't "born evil" as some have suggested. The way that Dana turned out can easily be explained by his affluent upbringing.

I graduated from Univ of San Francisco in 1973. It's a Catholic Univ much like its Catholic counterpart down the peninsula, the Univ of Santa Clara, where Dana attended some 20 years later. I met MANY children of Rich Families while at USF, and most of them were quite like Dana. They were all spoiled self entitled kids who were all brought up to believe that they deserved even a better life than Fate had so generously dealt them. They lacked any gratitude and humility whatsoever. In fact, a poor kid at USF I supplemented my income by writing term papers for those Rich Kids, those Rich Kids who thought that they were even above doing any real work to earn their college degree.

I completely blame Dana's parents, the ones he murdered, for the "evil" way that he turned out. They saw their Golden Sonny Boy as a kid who could do no wrong. "What ? Not my son ! He could NEVER Do something like that !"

What Dana lacked were parents who kicked his butt on a regular basis, and put his nose to the grindstone sweeping the floor and cleaning the toilets at the Family Business that gave him such a wonderful affluent life. Whatever they tried to do for their son, the one thing they never did was to instill an attitude of Gratitude within him. They somehow failed to teach Dana that true happiness comes from being Grateful to God for what you already got, rather than futilely searching for happiness by acquiring more and more and more money and materials possessions.

This is a very good hour on the study of a family and the child that tore it apart for pure greed.

It wasn't easy to watch, but was well done.

Heaven help us all if he gets out of prison early.

Story begins with the introduction of a couple, Glee and Dale Ewell, who are successful as business people in addition to plain good folk. The Ewell's had a son and daughter, Dana and Tiffany, completing what appeared to be the perfect family. That is until one got to know Dana wasn't "the good son" type at all. He was quite the loner and strange to the point of attempting to take on the business persona of his father...literally, but his father was alive still posing a problem! Since the family business was a multi-million dollar success this was a big order indeed which seemed to be made stranger when Dana's parents and sister were murdered. Time, and the fact that in the past, murders like these were mostly regional news mean this crime is one the viewer likely never heard of. Due to the unique circumstances, however, these murders prove extremely interesting as revealed in this straight-forward look back into the evil that children are not supposed to be capable of. A well done expose of this terrible crime and the mind at it's center.