Richard "Rick" Kananen Jr.
There not very people who will argue that the Kananen children did not have a hard life, at least when their father was around. While no one, except those who live it, knows exactly what goes on behind closed doors there always seem to be little things that stick out to others. For the Kananen family it seemed odd to others how they moved from state to state so often and many times in the middle of the night like they were sneaking away or evading someone or something. Some have said that this happened when Richard Kananen Sr. thought that things going on inside the home were leaking out and people were getting curious. The family, that consisted of Richard, his wife Marilyn and their three children, Richard Jr., Cheryl and Stacey, lived in California, Maine, Minnesota, and Arkansas before settling down near Orlando Florida in 1978. I should note, to put things in perspective that Richard Jr. was at least ten years older than his next sibling, Cheryl and thirteen years o...