He was always academically smart, graduating high school with a 4.2 gpa, but it was the not-so-smart decisions he made outside of school that kept Bill Irons living on the edge. In and out of trouble, juvenile hall and engaging in drugs, his early years took him to South Dakota to live with his mom to complete high school. When she fell ill, he stayed to care for her, and when the emotion of it became too much for him to bare, he left and his life started spiraling out of control, again. Bill thought a move to Oklahoma to help his grandfather would calm the pain of his mother’s passing, yet he continued making poor choices. He was manufacturing drugs and began dealing.