A new Sunstone podcast episode investigates "Jay's Journal," the 1991 book that sensationalized the 1971 suicide of a Pleasant Grove, Utah teenager and distributed a distorted version of his death nationwide.

The episode examines how the book — ghostwritten and heavily fictionalized without the family's full knowledge — left lasting scars on the community and continues to cause harm decades later. The podcast explores what was real versus fabricated in the published account.

"Jay's Journal" was marketed as a factual diary but contained significant invented material about Satanism and occult practices that did not reflect the actual circumstances of the boy's death.