When I heard the judge say 120 years, I thought he would never get out.

It has been 18 months and we've heard not a peep from them. We want the judge to make them act - make them respond to our petition.

We were all really panicked when we heard the gunshots,

Her life mattered and he took it all away.

She was crying. There were tears coming down her cheeks. She spoke no English, except 'I miss my mom, I miss my mom'. There's this little girl and all we could tell is that she missed her mom. Then we stopped to eat, and she couldn't say anything except 'hamburger' at this big place with so much to eat.

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.