I've heard the same things you have about Terry Hobbs. I don't think it's debated that he grew up helping his butcher father working in a slaughterhouse - an old fashioned one, where the animals were hung upside down, hit on the head with a hammer to render them unconscious, then slit open. Terry was too small to reach into the gutted animal and slit its esophagus so as to remove the innards, and literally had to crawl inside. Nice work for an 11 year old.
Is Dave REALLY a lawyer? I find this so hard to believe.