. >> but jim's father, james dimaggio sr.n't go there subject around the campfire. >> he had said he had a bad childhood, but it was always vague and never really wanted to talk about it. >> but it was jim's sister who revealed to andrew unsettling stories of what she said was their father's physical and emotional abuse. she was proud, she said of overcoming their childhood trauma. >> they had managed to break the cycle, the violent and abusive relationships. that jim is stoic and always held the emotions back and never brought it out. >> and there was one episode involving their father that had a chilling, eerie, almost parallel tie-in replaying out with the son and hannah. a friend and high school classmate of jim jr., but she'll never forget her terrifying encounter with his father 25 years ago when she, like hannah, was just 16. >> i remember he wore leather jacket a lot and jeans. kind of a greasy loser. >> jim dimaggio sr. was her mom's one-time boyfriend. >> i think they dated five or six months in november of '88 is w