Daughter thanks father's killer

[GrantDawg]

This one is a twist:


http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met.../15thanks.html

Woman thanks dad's killer

From staff reports





Gladys Elaine Jackson thanked serial killer Carl Patton for killing her father -- minutes after Patton received a fifth life sentence Wednesday in Henry County Superior Court.

It was the latest twist in a case that was strange from the beginning when DNA evidence brought it to court three decades after the murders.

Jackson, 39, said her father, Richard Russell Jackson, was so abusive when she was little that he shot a TV set as she watched cartoons. Soon afterward, Patton killed her father, beginning a spree of murders for hire and cover-up killings over the next four years.



Investigators say Richard Jackson's wife, Marie, hired Patton to kill her husband, with insurance money as a motive. Marie Jackson died 14 years later.

But Gladys Jackson said her mother ordered the hit to save herself. "It's never a good thing when people are murdered, but in terms of saving my mom's life, it was a good thing," Gladys Jackson said.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I saw this one earlier today, bet that was quite surreal to watch play out in person.