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Into the Abyss Page #7
- Whenever I went back
and testified,
his brother went back
and testified too.
His brother was in...
in prison, Chris,
and... and we,
me and Chris went...
came back to
the diagnostics together,
and then...
and I'm embarrassed,
but all of three of us,
we had Thanksgiving together,
at the diagnostics unit.
You know, and they, uh...
They think that's kind of cool,
but as a father, I thought
that was pretty embarrassing
to be sitting there
in prison with my sons.
- All of them incarcerated.
- Yes, sir.
And then me and Jason went on
over to the next place together,
handcuffed together in the bus,
and that's something that
I never in my life
would ever dreamed... dreamed of
that would've happened,
that that same little baby
that was...
We had to hold him down to
take bone marrow tests out of,
when you are handcuffed together
with your own son
in the same bus.
Can you describe that?
- No, not really.
It... it's, uh...
- Try to describe it for us.
Well, I don't know.
I just felt like
a total failure,
total failure as a father.
- And you could feel his hand,
can't you?
- Yes.
Yeah, we were handcuffed to
this hand and his right hand,
and we were sitting there,
and... and I was just...
it was just total failure.
That's what I felt like.
I felt like crap, you know,
and I used a different word
to the jury,
and... and... and that's...
and that's what I meant.
You know, he had trash for a...
for a father,
and... and then here I was
sitting with my baby son
on a prison bus,
and, I mean, I don't think it...
I don't think it gets much
lower than that, you know?
It just don't.
Knowing me or him,
neither one'll ever, you know,
get out again.
I just got a three year set
off again
about a week ago, so...
We'll never... me or him
will never get out again.
- And will he ever
get out again?
- I don't think so.
He comes up for parole
the first time in...
in 1942 for the first time.
- 40 years
after his conviction.
- Yes, sir, 1941.
I'm sorry.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
- Yeah, 2041.
You're a century back.
- Yes.
- Behind.
- 19 yeah, 2041.
I'm sorry.
- Well, it doesn't matter.
It's time must be.
- A long time.
- Time is probably different
for you in here.
- Yes, sir.
- This is actually the vehicle
that was in Sandra Stotler's
garage.
This was the vehicle
Jason Burkett was... was after.
Three people died for this car,
a car that was
in their possession
for less than
Within a couple of years,
I mean, this vehicle
was just trashed,
the inside of it,
because there was actually
a tree that had rooted
and had come up through
the center of it,
and it tore the floorboard up,
to move it over to this lot,
it was a little bit difficult
because of that.
- A tree grew inside of it.
- A tree grew up
from the bottom up into...
up into the car.
- Why did they die?
- I ask myself that question
every day.
I mean, for a vehicle?
You know, I... I don't know.
I don't know.
People die every day over
or, you know, $2.
People rob each other,
and I don't know.
I don't know why they died,
I don't know.
I don't...
I don't have an answer.
- Can you speak about
the family of victims?
Nobody seems
to address that side.
- I... I don't...
- How do you live
with all this?
I didn't for a while.
I'm starting to live again,
but basically I just shut down.
Montgomery County has
a victims assistance program,
but when you... when your whole
family's ripped from you,
you... you know, you're kind of
like, what's the point?
What's the point
of living any more?
I don't have a family
to share it with.
And I know I have to live
for my children,
to raise my children.
I don't want them to have
a miserable life
or have a depressed mother
all the time.
But for about four years,
I didn't go anywhere.
I stayed in the house,
took the phone out of the home.
I don't like to talk to people.
I figure, if I don't
get close to anybody,
I don't... you know,
I won't get hurt again.
I don't know.
I just...
I just shut down, really.
My grandmother shut down.
Our... our lives are...
are empty, very empty.
Very empty.
That's Adam.
That was his six...
he was 16 there.
That was his last
school picture.
My brother, my brother
was my best friend.
He was...
he was only 16.
It is true that he is not
my real brother.
My sister was...
got pregnant when she was 16,
and they were actually
out of town the day he was born,
so I was the first one
to hold him,
and I just... I had this feeling
his whole life
that something
and I remember calling my mother
and saying, you know,
"What's Adam doing?
Where's Adam?"
You need to make sure...
y'all just moved up to ohio.
"You need to make sure
you're watching him."
And my mom was like,
"I've raised five children.
I can take care of him."
And when he hit 16,
I knew he was... he was good.
He was safe.
He was a man.
He'd be able to
take care of himself now.
He was such a great kid.
He was in love for
the first time in his life.
And, um, one... one thing
that sticks out for me,
One thing that I remember,
I was supposed to get married.
Well, I did get married
September 16, 1995,
but my dad, Mel,
he was a preacher,
and he was supposed
to marry me and Kenneth.
He died six months
before the wedding.
He was hit by a train,
him and my older brother
and the family dog.
And so we got... I refused
to get married in a church,
so we got married on the boat
in Lake Conroe.
Right as I was
walking out the...
walking out the door
to go down the aisle,
wedding ring inside my dress
right over my heart,
and she said, "I didn't want
your dad to miss this."
And, you know, that just...
- You loved her.
- Yes, and I know she was
in so much pain that day,
but she hid it
because I was so happy.
She hid her pain for me,
and, you know, she... she just
made it through the day.
I just miss 'em a lot.
Our family's just so incomplete,
so incomplete.
You know, sometimes my kids
will ask me things,
and I'll go, "I don't know."
I wonder what my mo...".
You know, there's things
at all times of day and night
I want to call and ask her.
It took me forever to realize
she was really gone
'cause I would want to pick up
the phone and call her.
- Is this why you
got rid of the phone?
- Yes, I... I did not want
another phone call
telling me somebody else
in my family had died.
I couldn't handle
I couldn't handle 'em any more,
so I just cut myself off
from the world.
I can't... I can't
have a phone on.
I just don't like to hear
the phone ring any more
'cause all it ever brought me
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