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Before her children even knew their mother had been killed, the federal government was already

busy rewriting the story of her death.

She'd lived a good life, though not a long one.

She was happily remarried after a divorce, and despite the demands of motherhood,

she went back to school in her 30s.

People who loved her described her as a Christian woman, a devoted mother, and someone who

believed passionately in loving everyone. So much so that she put that belief into action.

And as the FBI commandeered the investigation into her death, her grieving spouse was left

trying to explain what had happened to her children.

Her youngest was just six years old. She had both hands on the steering wheel when she was shot in the head.

She was dead before her car came to a stop, crashing not far from the spot where her killer had fired at her.

The person she was traveling with that day was miraculously, not hit.

There should have been no way to spin it. The investigation revealed the shooter and his

motive almost immediately. But federal officials ceded doubt,

planting stories in the media that she was sexually immoral,

that she'd neglected her children,

that her spouse was a person with questionable associates.

She was an extremist, an outside agitator.

She had dangerous left-wing politics, and she might even be a communist.

She was sick, degenerate.

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