Shortly afterward, Whitaker woke up inside the grave and dug himself up. Thinking he was dead, Daniel dragged him into the woods and buried him. His father dragged him up and tried to revive him but couldn't. When he was done, Whitaker argued with him again, and as a result, Daniel punched him in the face so hard that he fell into the lake and nearly drowned. When Whitaker started talking back at his father, Daniel forced his son to take his shirt off and whipped him with his belt, a usual punishment. One night, on February 6, 1996, when he was sixteen years old, he and his father were fishing in the lake from a jetty. On October 28, 1990, at the age of ten, he was diagnosed with lymphoma (a kind of cancer), but it went into remission on June 9, 1992, when he was twelve. His father, Daniel, was an abusive alcoholic whose wife left the family, leaving her son to live with Daniel in a cabin on Ridge Canyon Lake. Whitaker was born on May 9, 1980, in Ridge Canyon, California.
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