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00:54I was informed by my supervisor and he had been in communication with America Most Wanted.
01:00Everyone ready?
01:01That wasn't my call, that was your call, but at that point I had nothing else to lose.
01:04Here comes the roller coaster again.
01:06Good evening.
01:08Now our first story tonight is about an artist.
01:12Everybody was at the TV to watch this segment.
01:15Some artists can take a block of clay and manipulate it and mold it into anything they can think of.
01:21She manipulates people instead of clay.
01:24And I remember thinking, that's not me.
01:27And even when she was sent off to prison, she never stopped working her craft.
01:32They don't have a clue.
01:34They don't know who they're looking for.
01:36Everyone around her was putty in her hands.
01:49Rockville Correctional Facility, Rockville, Indiana.
01:54A place more than 1,000 women call home.
01:58Tom and I were in a hotel room and we watched what America's Most Wanted aired.
02:06One of those women was Sarah Pender.
02:09This is her entertaining some of her fellow prisoners.
02:12The longer I watched myself on TV, the worse it got.
02:19I mean, I'm not stupid.
02:21I knew what they were doing.
02:23But behind her angelic good looks and endearing persona, former Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Larry Sells says Sarah Pender is
02:33a woman to be feared.
02:35She has a Charles Manson-like ability to manipulate people, to act as surrogates for her in committing crimes.
02:44Everything, you know, America's Most Wanted, that wasn't the person I saw.
02:48That wasn't the person I knew.
02:49That wasn't the person I talked with.
02:52All that stuff sort of ramped up the scrutiny and the pressure and the fear of her.
03:00Not just in Indiana, but obviously since it's been on America's Most Wanted, everyday normal civilian people are going to
03:09be looking out for her.
03:11Sarah's a convicted murderer.
03:13She's a con.
03:14She's a convict.
03:15She did con some cons to help her.
03:16But since she's been out, she's flushed them down the toilet as if she flushed the two bodies in the
03:22back of a dumpster.
03:23But manipulation is a story.
03:26I hate to say it.
03:30But it's very common for a man to blame a woman for their actions.
03:37Men will point the finger and say, the woman made me do it.
03:42Pender is like a chameleon.
03:44We know she's manipulative.
03:46And she probably is already working her charms on someone new.
03:51Let's put Sarah Pender back behind bars tonight.
03:55When America's Most Wanted had got involved, it generated a ton of leads.
04:02You know, she's at her truck stop right now in Nebraska.
04:05She's in Oklahoma.
04:06We started, you know, it's just like tips were all over the country.
04:11From Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas.
04:15I mean, there was no nexus to these locations.
04:17So you couldn't let these tips lay dormant.
04:21You had to go.
04:23So it was a trade-off.
04:24But I knew, though, that it was not favorable for her.
04:28It just keeps on putting the pressure on any movements that she may be trying to make or not be
04:33able to make.
04:35As I obsessed with the hunt, that's kind of a crazy word to use.
04:43I guess I was a little obsessed.
04:49After America's Most Wanted aired, friends that I turned to whenever I needed help, now they were gone.
04:59Every moment was tainted with knowing that just a glance or someone that I had been in prison with or
05:10someone with a great memory was going to spot me.
05:16And, of course, again, I dyed my hair.
05:22And I bought colored contacts, changed my eye color to hazel.
05:29So I went to the eye doctor.
05:31I bought glasses.
05:33I did not know how long my relationship with Tom was going to last.
05:40I felt like it was important for me to keep moving.
05:45So Tom had arranged for me to stay with the niece of a friend of his.
05:49And it just happened that a friend of hers was looking for an estimator for a construction company that his
05:59dad owned.
06:00And I got on the bus, and I just pretended that everything was fine.
06:22A couple weeks later, it was literally ferreting through a bunch of leads from all over the country that were
06:28absolutely crazy leads.
06:31I mean, I had stacks and stacks of stuff that came in from America's Most Wanted.
06:35I'm like, I don't have time to go through.
06:38I mean, these were just, like, nutty people.
06:39But it's what it was.
06:40It was leads, but it was just not very tangible leads.
06:46And then, all of a sudden, I had to call off an internal affairs investigator at Rockville.
06:50And he was my eyes and ears internally in the prison.
06:55Now, the Department of Corrections, I wasn't aware of this.
06:57They have an e-mail system set up where anybody can send messages to and from the offenders.
07:03They got an e-mail.
07:05It was directed to this inmate.
07:08Her name is KP.
07:10She used to have a relationship with Sarah.
07:13They thought Sarah may be trying to contact KP using another offender's login.
07:22Is she going to be that stupid to use a login of another person and try to communicate with her
07:26former girlfriend inside?
07:28We couldn't ignore it.
07:32We surrounded the house where Pender was maybe using this account.
07:37The America's Most Wanted crew were there.
07:39With the anticipation of, this could be it.
07:42This could be the one.
07:44We were ready to rock and roll with what we call shock and awe.
07:48You know, waking people up.
07:51You got a search warrant.
07:52Come on out.
07:52Do you know what it's about?
07:53No, I don't have a clue.
07:54All right, we're searching for a girl.
07:56What girl?
07:56Sarah.
07:57It scared him to death when the eyes came to the door.
08:00She's got 110 years out of her head.
08:02You don't.
08:05She could have been there.
08:07Unfortunately, Daybreak revealed Pender was nowhere in sight.
08:11He said it was truly an offender.
08:13They're reaching out to KP.
08:15Nothing more than that.
08:17Sarah had nothing to do with that.
08:19The best thing now, I'm going to back up out of here.
08:22Let the dust settle for a couple of days.
08:24Is that a feeling of embarrassment a little bit?
08:27That there you are on national television?
08:29No.
08:30No.
08:31No.
08:31I don't give a shit about where America's most want to put it with me.
08:34I didn't care about what Washington...
08:36They were doing their Hollywood shit.
08:38Okay?
08:38Did it keep the light on Pender?
08:40It kept the light on Pender.
08:54Being on the run, I had no idea what I was really getting myself into.
09:02But Chicago was very convenient.
09:07I felt like I could blend in.
09:14Each day, I went to work, and I felt like a normal person.
09:20I would put my high heels in my backpack, put on my tennis shoes.
09:27Listening to the sound of my footsteps on the pavement as I walked up to get lunch.
09:33I don't know if I ever forgot that I was a fugitive,
09:36but there was not a time that I did not enjoy experiencing new things.
09:43I met this guy on the corner walking his two dogs and chatted him up about,
09:51where did you get your dogs?
09:53And he had rescued them from someplace.
09:55And it was just, it was the most normal, beautiful thing.
10:05And I thought, this is real life.
10:09This is real life.
10:14Those are the times that, those are the times that being a fugitive didn't matter.
10:29Hinder is on the 15 most wanted fugitive list, but she might not look like this.
10:34Police say she has cut her hair, colored it multiple times, added a nose ring and a tongue piercing.
10:40They've got 15 in their profile, and she's the only woman on there.
10:44It's individuals that the U.S. Marshals at the federal level feel are the most dangerous people that they are
10:49actively hunting.
10:53It was really odd to see that I was on this top 15 list.
11:01I knew that I wasn't dangerous.
11:03I know that I'm not a threat to the community, but they don't know that.
11:08I have strong belief that she hasn't left the state of Indiana.
11:12If she has, it's just been for a short stint.
11:16I'm real dangerous with my charming smile.
11:24Sorry.
11:27When Sarah was elevated to the U.S. Marshals top 15 poster, with that came a $25,000 reward.
11:33And all that is, is to get people to drop a dime on her.
11:36I was hoping that eventually the U.S. Marshals would just give up and find something else to do, more
11:42important.
11:43She may think she knows her capabilities, and she was good.
11:49But I wouldn't want to be her right now.
12:07I worried about Sarah every day.
12:11I lost my daughter because she has to be on the run.
12:17I don't know how to explain it.
12:20It messes with your mind, you know, to not know for sure what's around the corner.
12:32Thanksgiving, it's a time of being thankful.
12:36Knowing that she was still alive, I was thankful for that.
12:43But it's hard not to have your family together.
12:47Sitting at the table.
12:51On Thanksgiving Day, Tom left to see his family.
12:58And so, I walked down to the Denny's down the street and picked up a traditional Thanksgiving meal with two
13:07pieces of pecan pie.
13:11Yeah, it was lonely.
13:19When I was sitting in my apartment, I had bought a guitar.
13:24Just a cheap acoustic guitar.
13:27And I had to go in my room to play it because I was afraid that my next-door neighbor
13:32would hear me playing and singing.
13:35And that was one of the things that they had put on America's Most Wanted, is that I like to
13:40sing and play guitar.
13:44And I thought, I have to hide this.
13:47I have to hide this part of me.
13:51I couldn't be myself because then I would be too much like Sarah Pender.
13:59It was emotionally exhausting.
14:05I just wanted to resume my normal life.
14:10Investigators say Sarah Pender is on the loose and dangerous.
14:15We've received numerous tips and calls.
14:18But here lately, they have since dried up.
14:21Wanted fugitives, they're usually on the run for days, maybe weeks.
14:26Very rarely are they months.
14:28When I was hunting Sarah, though, she was all-encompassing in my mind from when I went to sleep and
14:35then I woke up.
14:37And a lot of the times, if I'm watching TV with my daughter or my son and my wife,
14:42and my phone ring,
14:44I mean, from state police detectives, the internal affairs, to America's Most Wanted,
14:50they were all trying to get information to me.
14:54Every lead I went to, everything I went and checked out,
14:58you have hope and you have, you have what if.
15:03I was gone all the time.
15:06And I was coming up with empty-handed.
15:10And then I, I fell down the deep hole of, of, I started drinking too much.
15:20I would decompress in the evening with, with absolute vodka and wake up with a headache in the morning.
15:28I suffered, chasing her ass for four or five months.
15:35Yeah, I take ownership, I wasn't around.
15:38So, that's all I want to say about my personal life.
15:49The fear is not about returning to prison.
15:53Because I know what prison is.
16:01The fear was that I would lose my freedom.
16:06Not that I would go back to prison.
16:10One thing is punishment.
16:13And the other one is loss.
16:18I had started packing my things because I was moving in a couple of days to a new apartment.
16:27It kept me on the move to avoid detection.
16:35And then, it was a loud knock.
16:42It's 11 o'clock at night.
16:43And he says, maintenance.
16:46And I shuffled across the parquet floor in my little pink slippers.
16:52And I remember looking out the peephole.
16:58And I see these four strapping men.
17:03I think a couple of them had on, you know, bulletproof vests.
17:09My initial reaction is, grab my go bag, go out the back.
17:14There was a back stairwell.
17:16My escape route.
17:21And I paused.
17:25This was it.
17:26You got me.
17:28The universe let me out of prison.
17:30And now the universe is telling me it's time to go back.
17:34And I opened up the door.
17:37Just let me get my shoes.
17:48And here are four men escorting me out of the building in handcuffs.
17:57Just walking to the car.
18:02Like nothing else is different in the world.
18:22I remember I was in a car, driving with my family, going to see my in-laws.
18:28And I got a phone call saying that Pender was apprehended in Chicago by an anonymous tipster.
18:35That's how I found out.
18:36Merry Christmas.
18:38December 2008.
18:41Would have been nice to be the one to track her out and put the cuffs on her.
18:44Yeah, but guess what?
18:46She didn't outwit us.
18:47She was put back in the cage.
18:50I turned my family around.
18:52I went to Chicago.
18:59When I finally got to meet Sarah, the first thing she said, she goes,
19:02you know what, you're a much better looking person.
19:06He didn't strike me as someone particularly special.
19:15Basically, Ryan had been obsessed with finding me for four months.
19:22Ryan talked to me like I knew him.
19:25Like he knew me.
19:28There was a relief.
19:29She was happy to see me.
19:31I was happy to see her.
19:33Because she's tired of running.
19:34She told me she was tired.
19:35She wasn't the only fugitive that I've caught through.
19:37She's like, yeah, I'm tired of running.
19:38I'm tired of looking by my back.
19:47Ryan Harmon knows me as much as you know me.
19:54And we got in the car to take her back to Indianapolis.
20:04We had U.S. Marshals undercover following her out of Chicago.
20:09I was in the backseat with her, and I put a digital recorder in my pocket.
20:12I hadn't known, I didn't know anything about who helped her while she was on the run.
20:17I had plan A, B, C, and D, you know.
20:20And my friend's like, I really don't like this guy.
20:22He's older.
20:22He's in his 50s.
20:24He's very clean cut.
20:26What was his name?
20:28His name was Tom.
20:31That's when she first divulged to me her friend, Thea.
20:34Had to introduce her to a guy by the name of Tom Welch.
20:37Tom is someone who is, he's a sex addict.
20:41And so he spends a lot of time and money in strip clubs and what have you.
20:47So basically, in the beginning, it turned into an arrangement.
20:53He's the one that sent her to Cincinnati and the act of Chicago and gave her a phone and gave
20:57her money and all for getting her nuts off.
21:02But man, I didn't expect to hear what I heard.
21:05And I was so goddamn close to getting her.
21:08If he hadn't entered the picture, I mean, she was choked.
21:12Law enforcement pull into the Indiana Women's Prison in this maroon torus.
21:17Sarah Pender in the left back seat.
21:19Pender now with red hair wearing a Purdue sweatshirt.
21:22They escort her inside the prison.
21:25News everywhere outside the prison.
21:27I mean, it was, I walked into a guillotine of like a, it was crazy.
21:32Sarah, how does it feel to get caught?
21:36And then...
21:43I gave my life for that hunt.
21:47But I lost a lot.
21:50I lost my marriage, my children, right after this capture.
21:54I didn't know that was going to happen.
21:58Didn't surprise me when it happened.
22:00But it happened.
22:01Because of her.
22:04Big question there.
22:08Was it worth it?
22:12I don't know.
22:17The date is January 8, 2009.
22:21Time is approximately 1.30.
22:22I'm present with a Tom Welsh reference Sarah Pender matter.
22:28Tom, if you could just start me at the beginning.
22:31Once upon a time.
22:33First time I met her, I was at the hotel there at Speedway.
22:37I mean, we were literally 6, 8, 10 hours of just sex.
22:42Just, you know.
22:45And so, I hate to say it, I started to have feelings after about the third day.
22:49I mean, we're dating.
22:50We are freaking dating.
22:51It's not like, oh, there's a cop.
22:52There was none of that.
22:54She's on the run.
22:55She's a U.S. Marshal's top 15 fugitive.
22:58And you're carrying on a relationship like you picked her up off of Tinder.
23:03I wasn't hiding anything.
23:04I just got into a love thing.
23:08And then when I saw that she was captured, that's when my world came apart.
23:14Not only that you were going to, or somebody was going to talk to me, but my wife.
23:21He told me his story with the attorney present because the prosecutor agreed to give him a proper statement,
23:25which means you give him a cleanup statement, it won't prosecute you.
23:28Well, I listened to what he had to tell me.
23:30He should get 24 years.
23:39When I was returned to prison, they told me that I was sentenced to one year in solitary confinement.
23:49That was an administrative move, which certainly we have that latitude.
23:55If we feel like somebody's still a danger to other inmates, to the, whatever.
24:03If they're a danger, we'll keep them locked up.
24:07I was told by officers, by staff, you embarrass the Department of Corrections.
24:13Therefore, they're going to keep you in solitary confinement.
24:21Solitary confinement is cold.
24:23Nothing but steel and concrete.
24:27There's a concrete slab with a thin mat with a steel toilet and a steel sink.
24:35And that is it.
24:38All you have is your mind, and it just ravages you.
24:41And you think about all the things that I had done.
24:45All the things that I didn't do.
24:48It just eats at you in this cycle, and you can't get it to shut up.
25:02In my mind, I thought I was getting out at the end of the year.
25:07But I was told that I would not be released.
25:10And when they told me it was indefinite,
25:17my mind started, like, winding down almost.
25:28So I was sitting on the floor, and I was trying to play solitaire.
25:36But the numbers didn't make any sense to me.
25:47I see things, but I don't know.
25:52Something is happening.
25:53Something is happening.
25:54I don't know what's happening.
25:55Something is happening to me.
25:57Literally, in my mind.
26:01And I'm just gripping apart, and just this part of me just floats away.
26:12And then nothing.
26:13I have no thoughts.
26:15I have no feelings.
26:18Nothing.
26:19It was just...
26:21like white noise.
26:25Whenever I would think about the future,
26:34I couldn't see it.
26:41And there was just this darkness.
26:43There was this abyss.
26:49I just kept sliding,
26:52and I was afraid.
26:53I was very afraid to lose my mind.
27:12I knew.
27:13I knew that it was taking its toll on her.
27:17But I didn't know how to help her.
27:19I didn't know what to say.
27:21I didn't know, you know, where to go.
27:24What do I do?
27:28It was close to Mother's Day.
27:31And I get a phone call around 8 o'clock.
27:34It was in the evening.
27:37It was Larry Sells, the prosecutor.
27:41And he says, Bonnie, I've done 72 murder cases,
27:47and one was a mistake, and that was Sarah.
27:50And she started crying.
27:52Said, Bonnie, you may not believe this,
27:57but it's my opinion based upon what I know now
28:00that your daughter Sarah did not receive a fair trial.
28:05After Sarah was re-arrested,
28:08an author by the name of Stephen Miller
28:11decided he was going to write a book on the case.
28:13So he asked me if I'd go to Homicide Department with him
28:20to help them look at the homicide file.
28:24So I got it out, and we were going through it,
28:26and I recollected most of the stuff was there.
28:31But there was a file there that said Floyd Pennington.
28:36He testified against Sarah that she admitted to him
28:40that she got Rick Hall to commit these murders.
28:44And inside the file, there were two legal-sized sheets of paper.
28:50And I saw what it was.
28:53I said, oh, shit.
28:56There was a whole list of violent criminals,
29:00drug dealers, criminal gangs,
29:03and even somebody named Pennington,
29:06a relative of Floyd's that was there.
29:08I call it a snitch list.
29:10And it was a list of people that he would turn in
29:13to get a better deal.
29:16It was like a rat crawled up out of the sewer
29:19to try to gain some advantage for himself
29:23and convince me that he was telling the truth
29:26about Sarah Pinder,
29:27maybe because I wanted to be convinced.
29:31I mean, I should have had that.
29:33I don't know why they didn't give it to me.
29:37But it made me realize that
29:40there was more to the Sarah Pinder case.
29:46In 2013,
29:48when I was a reporter for the Indianapolis Star,
29:50and Larry had called me and said,
29:54look, I have some problems with this case.
29:57I need to tell you about it.
29:59One thing that, especially after the trial,
30:02years after the trial,
30:04I recognized was something
30:06that should have been considered even more
30:08than it was at the time
30:11was the letter identified
30:14as being written by Sarah
30:15where she confessed to the murder.
30:20I knew in my heart
30:22that she didn't write this letter.
30:25And I thought,
30:27there's no way.
30:28What, you know,
30:29where'd you come up with this?
30:31I had five handwriting experts
30:34that all said the same thing,
30:37that she did not write that letter.
30:42The circumstances around
30:44how that letter was delivered to prosecutors
30:46was always a little bit suspect.
30:49It was not found by the guards.
30:53It was handed over
30:54by Rick and his attorney.
30:59I recall,
31:01he had had a cellmate
31:02by the name of Steve Logan.
31:05Rick asked him,
31:08I want you to do me a favor.
31:10Rick gave him her letters
31:12Sarah had written in the beginning
31:14and Steve copied her handwriting.
31:19Steven Logan had made an affidavit
31:23admitting that he wrote that confession letter.
31:27Rick Hull had him write it,
31:29made him write it.
31:32There was a letter
31:35that was used at the trial
31:37that
31:41was manufactured.
31:43You know,
31:44I didn't write it.
31:47Somebody else did.
31:50So that,
31:51I mean,
31:52that just
31:53it hit me like a
31:55you know,
31:57a load of bricks.
31:58This is what happened.
32:01Allow myself to be set up
32:02both for Pennington
32:04and the
32:05phony letter.
32:08The prosecutor
32:09who called this woman
32:10female Charles Manson
32:12is now saying
32:13I was wrong.
32:15She's not that.
32:17If you had had this
32:18at trial,
32:19would you have prosecuted
32:21Sarah for murder?
32:23Absolutely not.
32:25Larry Sells is working
32:26with Pender's new attorney
32:27to present the evidence
32:29to the Marion County
32:30prosecutor's office.
32:31Pender's attorney
32:32is still waiting to meet
32:33with Prosecutor Curry's office
32:35about the case.
32:46I had been in solitary
32:47for over five years
32:52and
32:53when they told me
32:54they were going to
32:55let me out
32:56into the transitional unit
32:58and they were going
32:59to put me on
33:00close observation
33:01it felt really good
33:03just to hear them say
33:04well,
33:04we're going to try
33:05letting you out.
33:08I know that
33:09Larry Sells
33:10found new evidence
33:10that changed his mind
33:13about
33:13my case
33:14and
33:17I believed
33:18that
33:19I was going
33:20to go home.
33:21I always believed
33:22that if
33:23you had new evidence
33:25to prove
33:26you know
33:28your innocence
33:30that
33:31that was what you do
33:32and they
33:33fix it.
33:34Now we have something
33:35that the authorities
33:36will
33:38you know
33:39will pay attention
33:39to on.
33:41I just knew
33:41I was going home.
33:42I knew it would
33:43take some months
33:44but I just knew
33:45I was going home
33:45and
33:47being so happy
33:49and imagining
33:49all these things
33:50that I wanted
33:51to do with my family.
34:10By the time
34:11that I received
34:12the no
34:17I had grown
34:19enough to know
34:20that
34:23that it would
34:24absolutely
34:24devastate my parents
34:26if I killed myself.
34:38And I have not
34:39told people that.
34:44but I also know
34:45that it's my only
34:46shot
34:46at freedom.
35:04I know what it's like
35:06to be in prison
35:07where you don't belong
35:08and who better
35:10to represent
35:10somebody like
35:11Sarah than me.
35:12How do you find
35:14past the defendant
35:15wanting tankless
35:16murder
35:17second degree?
35:18Yelping.
35:19Yes.
35:20I was in prison
35:22for almost 18 years
35:23until I was exonerated
35:24and when I got out
35:25I made a conscious
35:26decision to
35:27go on to law school
35:29and represent people
35:30who I believe
35:31were wrongfully convicted
35:32or people who were
35:34abused by the system
35:35and I really think
35:36Sarah fits into
35:36both those categories.
35:43Even with the evidence
35:44out there
35:45unfortunately
35:46there's no possibility
35:47of just exonerating
35:48Sarah.
35:50The track we're on
35:51is asking for mercy.
35:53I have a session.
35:54I'm all James.
35:55James Snyder.
35:56You're up.
35:56Resigning.
35:56All right.
35:57Be seated.
35:57Good morning.
35:58Because to put her
36:00in solitary confinement
36:01for five uninterrupted years
36:04so outstrips
36:06the crime she committed
36:08and I believe
36:09that the sum of it
36:11lends itself
36:12toward modifying
36:13the sentence.
36:15We're going to try
36:16to convince the judge
36:17that I'm worth
36:19letting go.
36:21State of Indiana
36:22versus Sarah Pender.
36:23So she is present
36:24and by counsels
36:25and the state is here
36:26by Mr. Cicchini.
36:28Judge, we are here
36:29for a modification hearing
36:30but that is because
36:32of the brutal murders
36:33of Trisha Norman
36:34and Andrew Cataldi
36:3525 years ago.
36:37Their lives were cut short
36:38at young ages
36:39and as evidenced
36:40by the letters
36:41that their family members
36:42submitted to the court today
36:43they continue to grieve
36:45their losses
36:45and it continues to impact
36:46their lives on a daily basis.
36:48And there has been
36:49a great deal of scrutiny
36:50about Ms. Pender's role
36:51in the crime
36:52and what she did
36:53or did not do.
36:55While we're not here
36:56to relitigate that judge
36:58we have to recognize
36:59that the prosecutor
37:00on the case
37:00who sought
37:01and obtained
37:01the 110 year
37:02executed sentence
37:03has recently changed
37:05his opinion
37:05about both the veracity
37:07of that conviction
37:07as well as the justness
37:08of that sentence
37:10and that is
37:11leaving the court
37:12with the difficult task
37:13of what to do
37:14with Ms. Pender's sentence
37:15to hand down
37:15a just decision
37:16in this matter.
37:17Thank you.
37:17It is the defense motion
37:19so I'll hear any witnesses
37:20and evidence
37:21you have to present.
37:22Pence called
37:22Roland Pender
37:23your honor.
37:25Has she matured
37:26since she's been in prison?
37:27Oh very much
37:28yes
37:28very much
37:29she's matured
37:30she uh
37:30I uh
37:31I seek advice
37:33from Sarah.
37:35You can't make up
37:36for time lost
37:37and I've lost
37:3925 birthdays
37:4125 Christmases
37:4325
37:44everything
37:45I pray
37:47that I can have
37:49the rest of my life
37:51with my daughter
37:53to hug her
37:54every morning.
37:56Yeah today is
37:57one of the biggest
37:58days of my life
38:00because I'm asking
38:01for the chance
38:01to be free
38:02and to not die
38:04in prison.
38:05You know I know
38:06that I deserve
38:07to be punished
38:07for what I did wrong
38:08and for what I did
38:10not do right.
38:12Did you and Trisha's
38:13families
38:14I want to tell
38:15them
38:15that I am
38:17so sorry
38:18for the terrible
38:19loss that you've
38:20suffered
38:21and for the role
38:22that I played
38:23in it.
38:24I have paid
38:25for it
38:2610 times over
38:27with 25 years
38:28in prison
38:29and 5 years
38:31a month
38:32and 12 days
38:33in isolation
38:35but your honor
38:36today
38:37I'm asking
38:38for your mercy
38:39and if you grant
38:40my petition
38:41I promise
38:41that you will
38:42never see me again
38:43I want to go home
38:45and keep working
38:46to make myself
38:47and the world
38:47a better place
38:49thank you
38:50thank you
38:51Miss Pender
38:53she has
38:54reformed
38:55and if you strip
38:56away
38:56that reformation
38:58all that we have
38:59left
39:00is vindictive justice
39:01and our petition
39:02your honor
39:03is to trim
39:04count two
39:05to run concurrent
39:06with count one
39:07such that Sarah
39:08is eligible
39:08for immediate release
39:10thank you your honor
39:12thank you
39:12Mr. Delaney
39:14so what I am going
39:15to do
39:16first I am going
39:17to hold this
39:18under advisement
39:19I want time
39:20to contemplate
39:22this decision
39:22all right
39:23so thank you
39:24all for your
39:25advocacy here today
39:27and I'll have
39:28like I said
39:29I'll have my ruling
39:29in due course
39:30thank you God
39:31thank you all
39:32very much
39:46I have a room
39:47waiting for Sarah
39:49it's all ready for her
39:52I'm hoping that
39:55that she can actually
39:57to see the outside
40:03and enjoy what life
40:05she has left
40:12and what will happen
40:14if she doesn't
40:23I really have a hard
40:25time thinking
40:25about that
40:28I know that
40:31it would kill her
40:32it really would
40:35and
40:38she
40:39might not
40:40make it
40:44when I think of
40:45freedom
40:45I think of all
40:46the tiny choices
40:47that I want to make
40:50whether I want to
40:51leave the toilet seat
40:52up or down
40:53whether I want
40:54a hot or cold shower
40:55all these things
40:56that I haven't been
40:56able to choose
40:57over the last 25 years
40:58freedom means
41:00autonomy
41:01but mostly it just
41:02means being with
41:03the people that I love
41:08what
41:11I'll just
41:12have fun
41:32I'll just
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42:04Gracias por ver el video
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