On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment a week before his scheduled return to the United States. Although Dr. Todd had repeatedly expressed fear about the work he had been doing with a Chinese company, authorities immediately ruled his death a suicide. His family initially didn’t know what to believe. This started to change, however, when they arrived in Singapore and the evidence seemed to suggest murder, not suicide.
The narrative completely changed when they discovered that what they had thought was a speaker was actually an external hard drive with thousands of files backed up from Dr. Todd’s computer. The data revealed by those files began to transform this story from a tragic suicide to an international saga of mystery, deceit, and cover-up involving three countries.
“Hard Drive: A Families Fight Against Three Countries,” is the captivating story of the mysterious death of Dr. Todd and his family’s grueling battle to reveal the truth against powerful forces that have sought to conceal, destroy, or discredit evidence indicating foul play or murder. This story, which is told from the unique perspective of Dr. Todd’s mother, Mary Todd, will allow readers to join in on a family’s painful, arduous, and incredible journey to reveal the truth surrounding the death of their beloved Shane Todd. The authors, Mary Todd and Shane’s cousin, Dr. Christina Villegas, hope that this book will honor Dr. Todd’s memory, entertain and inspire readers, and shine a light on the universal struggle for truth and justice against power and deceit.