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Christopher Hightower was convicted in 1993 for the murders of Ernest and Alice Brendel and their 8-year-old daughter Emily. According to court documents the motive for killing Ernest was that Ernest had filed a complaint against Hightower with the National Futures Association and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. He filed multiple lawsuits against the state to try to appeal his conviction but he lost all of them. He began serving his sentence at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston, but he was transferred to Illinois after he was attacked by other inmates resulting in an injury that required stitches. When ACI’s psychologist was interviewed after announcing his retirement in 2009, Alan B. Feinstein recalled that examining Hightower was one of the most chilling experiences of his career. ....