an end when sabrina and lisa started arguing. according to sabrina, lisa began thinking of her more foster than daughter. and sabrina didn t like that. i felt like the outsider. i felt kind of abandoned in a certain type of way. and not accepted. sabrina admitted her close relationship with both kevin and hailey had become a major source of friction with lisa. she doesn t like the fact of how i m acting with hailey and wouldn t let hailey come around me. not even give me a hug at night. it really, it hurt me. then came the moment when sabrina said lisa told her it was time to go. she was very blunt about it. she was like, i m sorry, i but i don t want you here anymore. my life was shattering before me. the betrayal. the abandonment. all that came to surface. two weeks later, sabrina says she quietly, carefully walked into lisa s darkened bedroom, a
else. it s not all my fault. now, i take responsibility because i did what i did and i know it was wrong. but if it weren t for him, it would not have happened. if it weren t for him. sabrina was referring to her foster father, kevin. i was doing what kevin told me to do. that s what it comes down to. it was an astonishing accusation. sabrina told parmertor kevin had grown to hate lisa even more than she did. it was a feeling she said kevin shared with her slowly over several months. started through text. man, i wish she i wish she was dead. or i can t stand her. she just needs to go. according to sabrina, kevin also revealed that lisa had multiple life insurance policies and that she was worth more dead than alive. you had sensed for a long time that there was something going on that sabrina wasn t talking about. uh-huh. did you think this was it. didn t think it was this
absolutely crazy. there is no way i can t even believe that he would begin to do anything like that. neither could kevin s sister chris ann. kevin, she said, loved lisa too much to want to harm her, nor would he ever do anything to risk the safety of his children. he would not put his kids in harm s way. and i include megan in that. he thought of megan as his own daughter. no one, she said, could be manipulated into committing such a violent act. this is the act of one person and one person only. according to linda, sabrina s story was a web of lies. woven together by a deranged and troubled teen. whose fantasy of having a life with kevin and hailey pushed her over the edge. i think she imagined the relationship that didn t exist. it was like i want this so this is how i m going to get it.
kidneys that are fluid-filled, and eventually the cysts are going to snuff the kidneys out to where they won t function. polycystic kidney disease is passed down from parent to child, and sabrina and joe have learned they aren t the only family suffering in columbus. we knew there was something wrong in our community, didn t know what it was, but we knew there was something wrong because people kept dying. we have an infant mortality rate higher than third-world countries. pastor steve jamison was among the first to discover that a lumber treatment plant in town, owned by kerr mcgee, was dumping massive quantities of a toxic chemical called ceo oh society. when they found the ceo oh society in the early 80s, they moved all the lightweight people out. they did not tell the blacks who were buying their property that that property was contaminated. the government knew. the health department knew.
people showed up. there was the notion if you were black and you got caught up in the criminal justice system, your chances of going to jail or prison was far greater. the history of our state is pretty well known, and it s always been a struggle. i think race probably touches just about every issue that emerges here in some fashion, to some degree. my attitude is that jim crow never died. it just dresses better and has better table manners. sabrina didn t get a fair trial. she didn t get a good trial. that one stayed with me more than i d like to admit. as sabrina s appeals began, her defense attorney contacted clive stafford smith, a british-born attorney special e specializing in civil rights and death row cases in mississippi. stafford-smith handles half the death row appeals in the state.