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Omaha Steve

(99,630 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:42 AM Nov 2013

Widow's strong testimony key to helping secure conviction in arson death


Sue Jensen was close to Marta & I from high school.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20131104/NEWS/131109393/1685#widow-s-strong-testimony-key-to-helping-secure-conviction-in-arson-death

By Todd Cooper

Sue Jensen sat next to her mother in court and waited for the one word that might soothe the wounds from the wickedness that has afflicted the Vasholz family over the past decade.

She placed her hand on Betty Vasholz's knee.

Clerk John Friend opened the verdict form and pronounced the fate of the man sitting 15 feet in front of Jensen and Vasholz, Terrance Hale.

“Guilty.”

Jensen cupped a tissue to her face and wept. Vasholz looked down, dropping her chin and her hands onto her cane.

FULL story at link.

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