My family secret

Pharyngula 2025-05-21

I have evidence of my father’s criminal past. I wonder if I carry Criminal Genes?

James Clayton Myers, 1952

He was a good looking rogue, I’ll say that for him.

Most of that is a lie, though. He liked fishing, and would play hooky to go down to the Green River and fish for steelhead, or hike up into the mountains for trout, but he didn’t own a gun (never liked them at all), so the only way he could have attempted murder is by whipping the game wardens with a fishing pole.

I think his inmate number is fake, too. He lived at 106 E. Willis St., so that’s where the first part of the number comes from.

I also think he was closer to 5’8″, if that.