Hunt joined a crowd of people trying to push the car into an upright position, but in the process he badly wrenched his back. The pain was so bad, he could barely move. A doctor gave him a steel back brace and ordered him to remain in bed for the next six months. It was just days later, on the night of November 19, while lying in the brace in Tyler, that ominous rumblings reached Hunt’s beside: Dad Joiner was unhappy.