True Crime Vault: Forgiving A Killer

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ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A son orchestrates a murder-for-hire plot that injures him and kills family members; the son is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death; the son's father pleas for the death sentence to be commuted to life in prison. Originally aired: 02/23/18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault, where heart-stopping headlines come to life.
0:11.7	Now on 2020, as a father begs for his son's life.
0:17.6	Stunning news just last night.
0:20.1	The death row fight for life. For that very son who plotted the murder of his life. Stunning news just last night. The Death Row fight for life.
0:22.0	For that very son who plotted the murder of his entire family.
0:26.2	One subject right now is shot in the arm.
0:28.1	Apparently the whole family's been shot.
0:30.1	That son on Death Row for over 10 years.
0:33.4	You were raised by a loving family?
0:35.1	Yes, ma'am.
0:35.7	But you still decided to kill them.
0:38.3	I did.
0:39.3	These last 48 hours, a literal count out to see if he lives or dies.
0:43.3	Can we stop for second?
0:45.3	That's...
0:46.3	Right here tonight, the long and twisting journey to accepting the unbelievable.
0:51.3	Bang!
0:52.3	And the next thing I realize is I am lying down like this.
0:58.0	Kent's response to me was, you guys are either way wrong or my son's a monster.
1:05.0	How could a son do that?
1:07.0	But why, Bart? I mean, this is the question that everybody wants to know.
1:10.0	Why? And how could a father do the nearly impossible? Forgive him?
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