(latimes.com) Giddens life was marked indelibly by homicide from the beginning. He is the third person in his immediate family to be murdered. He had a psychological breakdown as a teenager, several years after his father was murdered and a month after he witnessed the homicide death of his older sister, whose throat was slashed by a neighbor. She bled to death before Giddens’ eyes, his mother said, and he was never the same. He had been an A student, but after his sister’s murder, he talked to himself and lived in board-and-care homes, able only to do odd jobs. Still, he remained connected to his family, remembered everyone’s birthdays, and loved playing with his nephews and nieces, his family said. (source)