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She goes back. I guess she's in her cell in the city-county building, and she wants to write a note to Daryl.

This is John North, a journalist who covered Krista Pike's murder trial in 1996 and watched as the then-20-year-old was sentenced to death. He's talking about a moment right after

the jury handed down their verdict, the moment just after Krista found out that she would be

executed in the electric chair. After sobbing before the judge, she was brought back to her jail

cell, where it seemed she had only one thought, her boyfriend, to Daryl.

Tadarrel was sitting in his own jail cell, waiting to be tried for his role in Colleen's murder.

According to court records, he was both physically and emotionally abusive to Krista.

But she didn't really have anyone else to talk to.

And she writes this note and it essentially says,

can you believe they did this to me when I actually tried to be nice to her?

The most inflammatory part of that letter,

the part that would be repeated over and over again in newspapers and in court hearings,

the part that would be used to demonstrate that Krista was incapable of remorse, reads as follows.

You see what I get for trying to be nice to the hibb? I went ahead and bashed her brains out so

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