he says, neil, i ve done a lot of bad things in my life. he ll always be my dad. either he has the worst luck in the world, or he s responsible for murdering two women. i wanted them to know the truth. i was talking to this lady. she s prettier than you. it was almost as if he considered himself like a celebrity. i didn t do it. you didn t do what? kill kathleen or make stacy disappear. it kill kathleen. or make stacey disappear. so everybody is making things up? a lot of people. or you may be here for the rest of your life. maybe, or i may not be. what keeps me going is my love, my heart. i will find her and i will bring her home. and that s my promise. i just think about, is this ever going to end, i my ever going to be able to find her and get the closure i need? in these murky training waters, a sister searches for answers. i m going to keep doing this every day i can and every day i can afford until the day i die, until i can bring home. solving t
another 40 years added to his sentence. when he was arrested, he left behind six children, including two teenage boys with kathleen, and a five-year-old son and daughter with stacey. i m not going to have them to be split up between my siblings. his son steven 29 years old with his own baby at the time stepped in to care for his younger slings. my dad would get out beat these, charges get back so it was always a temporary thing at first, then as time went on, then became permanent, i committed to it and as time went on, they were my kids, you know. despite a notorious father, he was determined to give the kids a stable home. what i wanted to do with him, and that was to give them the most normal life, so we did travel sports, girl scouts, all that kind of thing, probably tried at least once and then
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out of drew. but the move backfired, the jury heard smith repeat the story of true confessing to stacey, that he killed kathleen, and this time, there was more. the details about you listening in on the phone call. harry smith said that stacey called me and she said she knew drew had committed this murder, and i could hear drew in the background yelling at her, and that was the last i heard of stacy. it is not so much what she said, but it is him yelling in the background i think that was almost more damning. disastrous, here was a defense witness reinforcing the pastors story, greenberg blamed lead attorney for gambling by putting smith on the stand. did you know he was going to say this?
go ahead. we were very fortunate to have the attorney jim glasgow, a very strong man, would me very determined. two weeks after drew s fourth while stacey vanished, workers exhumed the body of his third kathleen. the pathologist got to work. he was able to show there were no bruises on the back of her arm where she fell backwards, and the national instinct to frail your arms, and no bruises on her back, or her buttocks. undercutting the original finding that kathleen had fallen just before her death. but there were bruises, she had 16 other fresh bruises on all four planes of her body. including her collarbone. there was the two bruises to her clavicle, identical bruises, how do you get those? nobody is going to come up and