The Best American Crime Reporting 2008
“When Akron Beacon Journal reporter Phil Trexler was ushered in one morning just over five years ago, he noticed three men sitting together on one side. Trexler had covered the case of the condemned man, Robert Buell, so he knew who these men were: the father and brothers of Krista Harrison, whose murder 20 years earlier, at age 11, was the crime the state was avenging that day.
On the other side of the partition sat Patricia Millhoff, Buell’s attorney, and the Rev. Ernie Sanders, his pastor. Mi...llhoff was crying. Not 10 minutes before, she’d had to tell Buell that his request for a stay had been denied. She’d gotten to know Buell well. As the appeals process had wound down, there’d been little in the way of law to discuss, so they talked about mundane things. That morning’s Diane Rehm show on NPR. Or what books Buell was currently reading aloud into a recorder for blind people.
Buell always insisted that he had not murdered the girl. Millhoff believed him.
Sanders also was grieving.MoreLess
On the other side of the partition sat Patricia Millhoff, Buell’s attorney, and the Rev. Ernie Sanders, his pastor. Mi...llhoff was crying. Not 10 minutes before, she’d had to tell Buell that his request for a stay had been denied. She’d gotten to know Buell well. As the appeals process had wound down, there’d been little in the way of law to discuss, so they talked about mundane things. That morning’s Diane Rehm show on NPR. Or what books Buell was currently reading aloud into a recorder for blind people.
Buell always insisted that he had not murdered the girl. Millhoff believed him.
Sanders also was grieving.MoreLess
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