Greeneville, Tennessee Courthouse 1979

I had just been allowed back in the courtroom during my son’s murder trial, and as I listened to the lies the Prosecution was saying, I jumped up in my seat and

screamed,

""He’s innocent and you know it. You lie. You know he didn’t do it. He wouldn’t

have come back if he were guilty."

THE COURT: Sheriff, take the Jurors out

Again I screamed as Nelson’s hands were trying to…

How far would you go to save your child’s life? Would you write hot checks to pay attorney fees, sell your home, attempt a-jail break as a last resort and, - be on the run for a year with two young children? This mother did.

"I was eleven years old when I heard the judge exclaim, "Jeffrey Dicks, you are to be executed by electrocution until you are pronounced

Dead, Dead, Dead!"

It was at that moment life as I knew it would never be the same..."

My first eleven years started in the peaceful New England village of Concord, NH in 1967. I…