 The "Austin American-Statesman" explains how "Her mother collected dolls and figurines and scrupulously saved her mother's belongings.Hammonds' father filled sheds with plastic bottles and bags, used lumber, [and] scrap metal.The family's defunct cars as well as a school bus and even heavy equipment such as a bulldozer, littered the woods behind the home, their eviscerated frames a perfect playscape for an imaginative, solitary child."