There's a couple of factors in his life that led him to become the conspiracy theorist that he is today The first are his personal circumstances like just everything that happened to him growing up. His own uncle was assassinated when Bobby was nine He was pulled from school at 14 and flown to the deathbed of his father also assassinated Her cousin drove a plane into the sea on the way to Bobby's sister's wedding One brother died in a skiing accident another of a drug overdose his wife died by suicide All this in a family in which his grandfather's dictum was there will be no crying in this house.