\n‘So many miracles happened [since then],’ Kari said in a phone interview Friday with DailyMail.com. ‘It was a big, long journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘It took time for him to be back to him\u2026 He had to learn who he was again.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That journey of getting Landen ‘back’ took around three years and was rough on the whole family. Kari watched her son’s personality change from sweet and kind to angry and mean to back again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Read the whole thing. The kid’s mother wrote a book about it. Can’t honestly say I blame her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That kind of episode had been exactly my worry when I used to take my then-little kids to the Mall. I saw those third-level balconies and thought “this is a headline waiting to happen”. I made sure the kids and I walked across the concourse from those not-nearly-tall-enough railings, or that I was watching everyone around me very carefully. And this was 15-20 years before the Landen Hoffman episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lunatic who threw him over the edge is up for parole in seven years, by the way.\u00a0 Five’ll get you tel Mary Moriarty helps the perp sue the family for a share of the book revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was out at the Mall of America a week or two ago, perhaps for the second time since 2020. And as with the other time, I wondered – whatever happened to Landen Hoffman? Yep, I remembered the name – the little kid hurled off the third floor balcony at the MOA six years ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89551,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89549\/revisions\/89551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}