five years later ...
Earlier this month, Pope was charged with killing his wife with a hammer; strangling his 13-year-old stepdaughter; and fatally dropped and punched his 5-week-old son.
The time-line on this is pretty sketchy, but it almost seems like this was one of those "marry a guy in prison" situations, or immediately after he got out. Some people are just fatally gullible.
And dragging her daughter into that situation is unforgivable.
My only wish is that parole boards who make these mistakes would serve time after any re-conviction of anyone they release. That way they would be pretty damned careful not to release people till the full sentence had run.
5 Years for murder one is a travesty by any measure.
If he was put to death for Murder 1 - then he wouldn't have the opportunity to kill again.
IMHO