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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 14:11:38 GMT -6
Babysitter wins reprieve from execution for killing Texas infant 06/11/2007 By MICHAEL GRACZYK / Associated Press Condemned inmate Cathy Lynn Henderson won a reprieve Monday from a divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that will keep her from being executed this week for the slaying of a 3-month-old child in her care. Henderson, 50, was scheduled to be executed Wednesdasy for the death of Brandon Baugh, whose skull was bashed in while she was babysitting him. His body was buried in a wine cooler box as she fled the state more than 13 years ago. Henderson would have been the 16th inmate executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state, where 394 prisoners have been given lethal injection since 1982, but only the fourth woman. Nationally, she would have been just the 12th woman among the 1,079 convicted killers executed since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. ________________________ This was just released. This is SUCH BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Lisa on Jun 11, 2007 14:18:16 GMT -6
There are two reasons for this. Expert witnesses for hire and the gender issue.
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 14:20:08 GMT -6
There are two reasons for this. Expert witnesses for hire and the gender issue. This is total gender issues. We've executed men for less evidence than what the State had on this piece of garbage. TEXAS.... TODAY YOU SUCK AND YOU SHOWED THAT JUSTICE ONLY MEANS JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE MURDERED BY MEN.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 11, 2007 14:26:49 GMT -6
So what happens next? What hoops do we have to go through to get this monster executed?
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Post by Paul on Jun 11, 2007 14:29:02 GMT -6
Maybe the Supreme court will lift this stay...
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 14:41:15 GMT -6
Maybe the Supreme court will lift this stay... Honestly, it would be a first in my knowledge, but I do not claim to know every criminal case out there or even most. In reading the opinion, the reason the court is giving in the stay is essentially the recanting of the Medical Examiner about how baby Brandon died. They stated that she can continue her habeus corpus appeal.... that means she keeps going down the track as it were. Not all appeals are exhausted now and therefore she is not eligible yet to receive a death warrant under Texas law. The court is denying that she is no longer death eligible...that's good. But they have basically returned it to court regarding whether she is innocent or that constitutional errors may have found her guilty. This is very bad knews for those of us that wanted this to be over. Very bad. Essentially she was just given a new lease on life, something she denied Brandon.
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Post by DeadElvis on Jun 11, 2007 14:43:57 GMT -6
Maybe the Supreme court will lift this stay... Honestly, it would be a first in my knowledge, but I do not claim to know every criminal case out there or even most. In reading the opinion, the reason the court is giving in the stay is essentially the recanting of the Medical Examiner about how baby Brandon died. They stated that she can continue her habeus corpus appeal.... that means she keeps going down the track as it were. Not all appeals are exhausted now and therefore she is not eligible yet to receive a death warrant under Texas law. The court is denying that she is no longer death eligible...that's good. But they have basically returned it to court regarding whether she is innocent or that constitutional errors may have found her guilty. This is very bad knews for those of us that wanted this to be over. Very bad. Essentially she was just given a new lease on life, something she denied Brandon. So, maybe in 10 more years. * sigh *
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Post by Stormyweather on Jun 11, 2007 14:45:42 GMT -6
Imagine the poor Baugh family.
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 14:49:55 GMT -6
Hate this site but the pro-murder sites always have the first scoops it seems. Check out the dissenting opinion starting on Page 13. If you don't want to read it all.... scroll to the last two pages...the justice let's them have it in showing he is NOT for a stay. www.savecathyhenderson.org/henderson_decision_from_CCA.pdf
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 14:50:48 GMT -6
Honestly, it would be a first in my knowledge, but I do not claim to know every criminal case out there or even most. In reading the opinion, the reason the court is giving in the stay is essentially the recanting of the Medical Examiner about how baby Brandon died. They stated that she can continue her habeus corpus appeal.... that means she keeps going down the track as it were. Not all appeals are exhausted now and therefore she is not eligible yet to receive a death warrant under Texas law. The court is denying that she is no longer death eligible...that's good. But they have basically returned it to court regarding whether she is innocent or that constitutional errors may have found her guilty. This is very bad knews for those of us that wanted this to be over. Very bad. Essentially she was just given a new lease on life, something she denied Brandon. So, maybe in 10 more years. * sigh * If we're lucky. I feel so bad for the Baugh's right now. My heart just breaks.
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Post by Stormyweather on Jun 11, 2007 14:57:15 GMT -6
Babysitter wins reprieve from execution for killing Texas infant Condemned inmate Cathy Lynn Henderson won a reprieve Monday from a divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, keeping her from being executed this week for the slaying of a 3-month-old child in her care. Henderson, 50, was scheduled to be executed Wednesday for the death of Brandon Baugh, whose skull was bashed in while she was baby-sitting him. His body was buried in a wine cooler box as she fled the state more than 13 years ago. She would have been the fourth woman to be executed since Texas resumed capital punishment in 1982, and the 12th woman nationally. The state's highest criminal court voted 5-3, with one judge not participating, to send the case back to the trial court because of new evidence suggesting that the baby's head injuries could have come from an accidental fall, as Henderson has claimed. The high court ordered the trial court to examine arguments that Henderson was innocent of capital murder and that constitutional errors led to her conviction. In an appeal filed late last month, Henderson's lawyers said new scientific evidence bolstered the baby-sitter's contention the child died when she accidentally dropped him and his head struck the concrete floor at her home in Pflugerville, a north Austin suburb. A medical examiner who testified for the prosecution in 1995 that Brandon's death could not have been an accident submitted an affidavit with Henderson's appeal that he believed scientific tests not available a decade ago now show his conclusion was incorrect. "Had the new scientific information been available to me in 1995, I would not have been able to testify the way I did," said Dr. Robert Bayardo, the now retired chief medical examiner in Travis County. Because Henderson's appeals had been exhausted, her lawyers needed to convince the courts their latest appeal introduced new evidence. A court majority agreed. Judge Tom Price, in the lone concurring statement, said he thought Bayardo's affidavit proved to him no rational juror could have found Henderson guilty "to a level of confidence beyond a reasonable doubt." But in a scathing dissent, Judge Michael Keasler accused the court majority of being "sphinx-like" about Henderson's claims and chided the judges who backed the reprieve without explanation as "indefensible." "They dare not set out their reasons because they might have to defend them," Keasler said. Henderson would have been the 16th inmate executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state, where 394 prisoners — three of them women — have been given lethal injection since 1982. Nationally, she would have been just the 12th woman among the 1,079 convicted killers executed since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4880040.html
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Post by arizonavet on Jun 11, 2007 15:22:59 GMT -6
Judges should be forced to watch her interviews on television.
Her terminally dangerous personality shows through when you see her talk...
The irritating thing about this decision...is that there are ALWAYS a minority of anti-death penalty judges that will never uphold the law....even in Texas.
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Post by onetwobomb on Jun 11, 2007 15:57:29 GMT -6
Maybe the Supreme court will lift this stay... I don't think it can.
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Post by onetwobomb on Jun 11, 2007 16:00:27 GMT -6
There are two reasons for this. Expert witnesses for hire and the gender issue. This is total gender issues. We've executed men for less evidence than what the State had on this piece of garbage. TEXAS.... TODAY YOU SUCK AND YOU SHOWED THAT JUSTICE ONLY MEANS JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE MURDERED BY MEN.I don't think it's so much the gender issue why she got a stay. Texas has stayed the executions of several men before. I think it's just the witness changing his testimony.
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 16:03:19 GMT -6
This is total gender issues. We've executed men for less evidence than what the State had on this piece of garbage. TEXAS.... TODAY YOU SUCK AND YOU SHOWED THAT JUSTICE ONLY MEANS JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE MURDERED BY MEN.I don't think it's so much the gender issue why she got a stay. Texas has stayed the executions of several men before. I think it's just the witness changing his testimony. The DP is disproportionate against women. We say they're mentally ill, put them in institutions, give them less than life. A man kills a baby, he's on dp.. a woman murders a baby, she rarely gets dp and more often a long hospital stay. It is discrimination.
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Post by Big Al on Jun 11, 2007 16:04:46 GMT -6
This is so, so, so, so, sad.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 16:39:10 GMT -6
Well I can't even write what I really feel like saying here. This murderer is so guilty. There was so much evidence other than this one guy's testimony. I would say this is beyond belief to me, but it is getting to where none of this idiocy surprises me anymore. Lord help little Brandon's family - my heart goes out to them so very much. All these UNwarranted breaks for the murderer, when there was no mercy at all for little Brandon.
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Post by Kay on Jun 11, 2007 16:48:29 GMT -6
So what's the solution guys, to this idiocy? Is it worth all these appeals and roller coaster rides, I'm not an MVS, so I can't say. Brandon has been gone for 12 years, how on earth can it take so long to decide someone's guilt. I've always thought Henderson was guilty, too many changes in her story to even begin to believe it was an accident. Shouldn't that have been part of the appeal? I'm also convinced this woman thinks she has done nothing wrong, and does not in the least have a guilty conscience. Selfish, self centered and immature. Even though I don't agree with execution, I'm disgusted. If we are going to have the death penalty, we need to use it, or get rid of it altogether. The Baughs continue to be victimized
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Post by Lisa on Jun 11, 2007 17:05:54 GMT -6
So what's the solution guys, to this idiocy? Is it worth all these appeals and roller coaster rides, I'm not an MVS, so I can't say. Brandon has been gone for 12 years, how on earth can it take so long to decide someone's guilt. I've always thought Henderson was guilty, too many changes in her story to even begin to believe it was an accident. Shouldn't that have been part of the appeal? I'm also convinced this woman thinks she has done nothing wrong, and does not in the least have a guilty conscience. Selfish, self centered and immature. Even though I don't agree with execution, I'm disgusted. If we are going to have the death penalty, we need to use it, or get rid of it altogether. The Baughs continue to be victimized I imagine if we ask the Baughs they would say it's 12 years she doesn't deserve but they're willing to wait however many years it takes to see justice. If she had murdered my baby I honestly couldn't stand the thought of her visiting with her children, eating, laughing, smiling, playing cards, listening to the radio, reading, showering, putting on her makeup, etc. for the rest of her natural life. I'd feel victimized by that. I'm serious, Kay, I'd be willing to wait however long it takes.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 17:07:33 GMT -6
Hey, if the medical examiner said that give todays medical knowledge, he wouldn't have testified as he did, then there is absolutely nothing that can be done. I expect her to walk off death row in the near future. I happen to think she is guilty, but in capital cases, beyond a reasonable doubt means a whole lot more. Hopefully, she will get commuted to life without parole----but I doubt that. I think she walks.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 11, 2007 17:10:46 GMT -6
Hey, if the medical examiner said that give todays medical knowledge, he wouldn't have testified as he did, then there is absolutely nothing that can be done. I expect her to walk off death row in the near future. I happen to think she is guilty, but in capital cases, beyond a reasonable doubt means a whole lot more. Hopefully, she will get commuted to life without parole----but I doubt that. I think she walks. Three other medical examiners who reviewed the autopsy report and testified in Cathy Henderson's trial didn't budge even after reading today's medical technology. I don't think (at least I hope) you're not right. It could be determined that "today's medical technology" was fabricated by a hired expert witness.
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Post by onetwobomb on Jun 11, 2007 17:18:15 GMT -6
I don't think it's so much the gender issue why she got a stay. Texas has stayed the executions of several men before. I think it's just the witness changing his testimony. The DP is disproportionate against women. We say they're mentally ill, put them in institutions, give them less than life. A man kills a baby, he's on dp.. a woman murders a baby, she rarely gets dp and more often a long hospital stay. It is discrimination. You are right about handing out death sentences. I just think this stay has more to do with the idiot changing his testimony than anything. I just hope she gets juiced sometime soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 17:23:06 GMT -6
Hey, if the medical examiner said that give todays medical knowledge, he wouldn't have testified as he did, then there is absolutely nothing that can be done. I expect her to walk off death row in the near future. I happen to think she is guilty, but in capital cases, beyond a reasonable doubt means a whole lot more. Hopefully, she will get commuted to life without parole----but I doubt that. I think she walks. Three other medical examiners who reviewed the autopsy report and testified in Cathy Henderson's trial didn't budge even after reading today's medical technology. I don't think (at least I hope) you're not right. It could be determined that "today's medical technology" was fabricated by a hired expert witness. The problem is that the medical examiner who gave testimony at the time, has recanted and accepted the new science as casting doubt upon premeditation. If he had not turned, then I doubt very much that she would have been given habeas corpus. This is a fascinating case.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 17:26:50 GMT -6
What I would like to know is if they said she gets a new trial, or if they said she gets a Federal Evidentiary Hearing to evaluate the "new" evidence, or what? There could be a big difference there in the time involved.
And I am with Lisa, considering what I have read of their posts on the interntet, I would expect the Baughs are willing to wait out whatever. I know I am.
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Post by Kay on Jun 11, 2007 17:35:54 GMT -6
What I would like to know is if they said she gets a new trial, or if they said she gets a Federal Evidentiary Hearing to evaluate the "new" evidence, or what? There could be a big difference there in the time involved. And I am with Lisa, considering what I have read of their posts on the interntet, I would expect the Baughs are willing to wait out whatever. I know I am. She gets a new Federal Evidentiary hearing Janet within the next 90 days, and this does NOT remove her death sentence.
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Post by zd3925 on Jun 11, 2007 17:45:12 GMT -6
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Post by Kay on Jun 11, 2007 17:51:32 GMT -6
quote author=kay board=cases thread=1181592698 post=1181604954] What I would like to know is if they said she gets a new trial, or if they said she gets a Federal Evidentiary Hearing to evaluate the "new" evidence, or what? There could be a big difference there in the time involved. And I am with Lisa, considering what I have read of their posts on the interntet, I would expect the Baughs are willing to wait out whatever. I know I am. She gets a new Federal Evidentiary hearing Janet within the next 90 days, and this does NOT remove her death sentence.[/quote] Here's the latest from a local station, is my interpretation correct? Babysitter Wins Execution Reprieve For Killing Infant June 11, 2007 03:26 PM CDT Condemned inmate Cathy Lynn Henderson won a reprieve Monday from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The reprieve will keep the 50-year-old inmate from the Austin area from being executed Wednesday over the slaying of a 3-month-old boy. Henderson was condemned over the 1994 death of Brandon Baugh, whose skull was bashed while she was babysitting him. The victim's body was found buried in a wine cooler box. The state's highest criminal court voted to send the case back to the trial court because of new evidence suggesting that the baby's head injuries could have come from an accidental fall. That's what Henderson has claimed. The high court ordered the trial court to examine arguments that Henderson was innocent of capital murder and that constitutional errors led to her conviction. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6641880&nav=0s3d
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 18:05:24 GMT -6
quote author=kay board=cases thread=1181592698 post=1181604954] What I would like to know is if they said she gets a new trial, or if they said she gets a Federal Evidentiary Hearing to evaluate the "new" evidence, or what? There could be a big difference there in the time involved. And I am with Lisa, considering what I have read of their posts on the interntet, I would expect the Baughs are willing to wait out whatever. I know I am. Here's the latest from a local station, is my interpretation correct? Babysitter Wins Execution Reprieve For Killing Infant June 11, 2007 03:26 PM CDT Condemned inmate Cathy Lynn Henderson won a reprieve Monday from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The reprieve will keep the 50-year-old inmate from the Austin area from being executed Wednesday over the slaying of a 3-month-old boy. Henderson was condemned over the 1994 death of Brandon Baugh, whose skull was bashed while she was babysitting him. The victim's body was found buried in a wine cooler box. The state's highest criminal court voted to send the case back to the trial court because of new evidence suggesting that the baby's head injuries could have come from an accidental fall. That's what Henderson has claimed. The high court ordered the trial court to examine arguments that Henderson was innocent of capital murder and that constitutional errors led to her conviction. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6641880&nav=0s3dCriminal law is not my forte; however, based on reviewing the opinion your assessment appears correct. They are sending it to a court for an evidentiary hearing to determine if the "new" evidence is enough to warrant a new trial. They did refuse to dismiss the death warrant, so she is still death-eligible. If the evidentiary court rules there's enough for a new trial, we start over. Dammit. That woman took Brandon and wrapped him in a blanket and buried him in a wine cooler box and fled the state, changing her identity. She KNEW CPR, yet never called 911. WTF! My heart goes out to the Baugh's who are now on another roller-coaster ride.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 19:55:14 GMT -6
I have read your thread and want to say thank you all for your support of my family in this time of crisis.
Yes, we have been on a roller coaster ride from hell for the past 13 years, due to this woman. Everything bad you say about her is so true and so much more! You don't know the half of it.
Lisa invited me to this forum yesterday, and I registered last night. My approval for membership came through today. I am glad that I found you all. I will let my son and daughter know about this site. I am sure they would like to join too.
You all seem to be down to earth and pro dp. I am so sick of anti dps who espouse Cathy's innocence, even knowing the circumstances surrounding Brandon's death and burial. They ignore the evidence and listen to the Poisonous Penguin's website where Cathy's latest version of her truth is posted.
We are sick to death of Cathy and were so looking forward to getting her out of our life. We are so disappointed with the stay of execution.
As to being willing to wait another 10 years for justice to be served as someone above suggested, NO, and HELL NO, we are not willing to wait that long. We feel we have waited long enough for justice to happen in this case. There is no justice for the victims of the murderers. The laws are written to protect the criminals. I would have more rights if I killed the *bi+ch* myself, than I have in this case right now!
And you are right in saying that we are angry that she is still living and breathing when our baby is lying cold and dead in the ground. She thought no more of killing Brandon than she would have thought of squashing a bug. Then to add insult to death, she buried our sweet baby in a wine cooler liquor box and then she threw beer bottles on top of his grave. Within 24 hours of burying Brandon and escaping to Missouri, Cathy was already shacked up with another man, and had stolen the identity of another woman with a stolen SS card she got from her new lover.
She even bragged to her childhood girl friend that night in the kitchen that she had killed a "man" and buried him, but she thought she left his arm sticking out of the ground. The friend asked her why she killed the man. Cathy told her, because he "*screwed* with me." That was the testimony in court by the friend of Cathy's. When Brandon's grave site was found, we learned that one corner of the wine cooler box was sticking out of the ground as she had told her friend. Not a man, a baby, not an arm, a corner of the liquor box she buried him in, instead. And yes, she bragged about killing someone. So how does this make the *bi+ch* innocent of murder now?
Anyway, this looks like a friendly place to post comments and vent about the situation. Thanks for accepting me into your forum.
Grandmother of Baby Brandon
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Post by Lotus Flower on Jun 11, 2007 20:04:03 GMT -6
I have read your thread and want to say thank you all for your support of my family in this time of crisis. Yes, we have been on a roller coaster ride from hell for the past 13 years, due to this woman. Everything bad you say about her is so true and so much more! You don't know the half of it. Lisa invited me to this forum yesterday, and I registered last night. My approval for membership came through today. I am glad that I found you all. I will let my son and daughter know about this site. I am sure they would like to join too. You all seem to be down to earth and pro dp. I am so sick of anti dps who espouse Cathy's innocence, even knowing the circumstances surrounding Brandon's death and burial. They ignore the evidence and listen to the Poisonous Penguin's website where Cathy's latest version of her truth is posted. We are sick to death of Cathy and were so looking forward to getting her out of our life. We are so disappointed with the stay of execution. As to being willing to wait another 10 years for justice to be served as someone above suggested, NO, and HELL NO, we are not willing to wait that long. We feel we have waited long enough for justice to happen in this case. There is no justice for the victims of the murderers. The laws are written to protect the criminals. I would have more rights if I killed the *witch* myself, than I have in this case right now! And you are right in saying that we are angry that she is still living and breathing when our baby is lying cold and dead in the ground. She thought no more of killing Brandon than she would have thought of squashing a bug. Then to add insult to death, she buried our sweet baby in a wine cooler liquor box and then she threw beer bottles on top of his grave. Within 24 hours of burying Brandon and escaping to Missouri, Cathy was already shacked up with another man, and had stolen the identity of another woman with a stolen SS card she got from her new lover. She even bragged to her childhood girl friend that night in the kitchen that she had killed a "man" and buried him, but she thought she left his arm sticking out of the ground. The friend asked her why she killed the man. Cathy told her, because he "*deleted*ed with me." That was the testimony in court by the friend of Cathy's. When Brandon's grave site was found, we learned that one corner of the wine cooler box was sticking out of the ground as she had told her friend. Not a man, a baby, not an arm, a corner of the liquor box she buried him in, instead. And yes, she bragged about killing someone. So how does this make the *witch* innocent of murder now? Anyway, this looks like a friendly place to post comments and vent about the situation. Thanks for accepting me into your forum. Grandmother of Baby Brandon Please, with my heart in my hands, know that we feel like we loved Brandon as our own and are as disgusted and pissed off as you are (though I know we can't be totally, but as much as we can). So many of us are SICKENED by today's ruling and wish you and your family only blessings. You have been through so much and I am a Native Austinite and lived there when Brandon was taken from you and I watched and prayed like so many for his safe return. Please send Eryn and Melissa our condolenses and love. You all have comported yourselves remarkably during this whole ordeal and it would be an honor to get to know you. Please take good care and know that Brandon is remembered here and scum like Henderson are not celebrated, they are held in the highest contempt. Shelli
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