The unnamed man - who worked at family-run Rustic Inn Crabhouse two decades ago as a busboy - dined at the restaurant in late July and was hospitalized several days later.
live alex king and his what are you, katherine? his adoptive mother? his what? i m unofficially his adopted mother. he calls me mom. larry: but you came in touch with him through writing a book about this case? that s right, yes. larry: and you ve been out how long now, alex? a little over two years. larry: what s it like outside? it s well, at first, i could say it was a bit confusing. i spent a lot of time trying to figure things out. but i d say it s really nice. with a family like i have. with kathy and her daughters and everything. larry: where were you held? a few different facilities. i was in the pensacola county. i was in a program in okeechobee, ojocc. and ultimately i ended up in brevard correctional institution. larry: both juvenile institutions? well, brevard was a youthful
and i told row rosie, i said i m not working right now and i just can t really do this. and she said you know what, your mother would want you to go back to work. go back to work. it had been six weeks. she called me again. i went up to pensacola. and i saw this little boy. the pictures that you ve been showing. and i saw him in a jail cell, throwing a spaulding ball at a wall in the jail cell. and how could you not just want to help this kid? i mean, he was a baby. he was a little boy. yes, he did something awful. but we don t just throw children away. and i think larry: at that time, jayne, he was convicted and was facing what? he was facing 22 to life and he was going to get 22 years. there was no doubt in my mind. and he was going to be sentenced and put in an adult prison and that is the problem here. larry: what changed the judge? when i came up with a colleague, ben kunig, we filed a motion for a new trial, a motion to set aside the verdict, actually, and one of the
that he needed his time to adjust in his own way. so he would sit on the couch and just sort of watch us running around, living our lives. and it was a while before he joined in. larry: yeah. do you ever hear from your mother? when i went to pensacola to live with my grandparents, i she was living there as well, so larry: that was your mother s parents? right. larry: yeah. and so we ve been in touch for a couple of months now. and it s going well so far larry: does she have any guilt? she deserted you, right? it would seem it would seem that way but, you know, things like this take time. larry: what are your feelings for her? she s great. larry: she is? do you know the mother? i do. i do. larry: does she have guilt? i think she does. i think she wishes that she had an opportunity to do things a little differently. she had four absolutely wonderful children. larry: two others? there were. and they were adopted.