![]() ![]() ![]() Job accidentally killed her in his excitement and wonder at meeting a new person, and ritually arranged her body along with numerous Native American artifacts in a clearing. One day, an unfortunate woman, Sheila Swegg, an amateur explorer, found the backdoor entrance to the cave-system where Job lived. Job retained an almost childlike innocence about his surroundings with absolutely no understanding of the outside world or human beings beside his mother. She would deliver food supplies only periodically as Job aged. Over the years, Kraus raised Job with only rudimentary language skills and kept him completely isolated from the outside world. ![]() She named him Job after the Biblical figure. However, in order to hide her and the family's shame, Kraus was forced to raise her son in the cave-system behind the house. In her youth, Kraus was impregnated by an unnamed man and forced by her strict, conservative father to raise the child. He is a 51-year old man, the son of Winifred Kraus, owner of the local inn and tourist attraction, Kraus' Kaverns. Job is a character in the fourth Pendergast novel, Still Life with Crows. ![]()
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