Goodreads asked Andrew Fox:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Andrew Fox When I was in eighth grade, my former best friend Ritchie was killed by a shotgun trap while breaking into the bathroom window of a neighbor's house while the neighbor was out of town. At the time, no one ever learned why Ritchie had broken into this man's house or why the man had chosen to boobytrap all of his windows and doors; Ritchie was a Boy Scout and the neighbor was his scout leader. Turns out the scout leader was into sadomasochism with teens and children and had been moving around Florida to avoid detection and arrest. He left my neighborhood not long after Ritchie's death, for which he was not charged; however, he finally got nabbed in his next neighborhood, where he was caught with a van loaded with S&M implements and a room full of sex tapes involving his Scouts. I've always wondered whether Ritchie broke into his house in order to retrieve the tape that had been made of him and perhaps those made with his friends; the Scout Master kept those tapes as a form of blackmail to prevent the Scouts from informing on him.

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