The Generation Why Podcast Blog — trial

Twenty-one year old Shauna Haynes worked as a busser at an Italian restaurant called “the old spaghetti factory” in downtown San Diego. (Source) Her home-life wasn’t great and she was so desperate to move out that when a co-worker offered her to stay at his room in The Chadwick residency hotel on the 600 block of A Street, she accepted. The co-worker, a (then) 32 year old man named Joshua Matthew Palmer, was interested in Haynes romantically; however the feeling was not mutual on Shauna’s end. She had spent several nights at Palmers place in the past to avoid the abuse at home, and was prepared...