COLUMBUS, Ga. AP – A cigarette smolders in Anneliese MacPhail’s ashtray, and she looks at it mournfully. Although she’s tried to quit smoking so many times since her son was shot dead this day 20 years ago, she lights up again with every twist in the case against his convicted killer.
“My nerves are shot,” she says Wednesday, sitting in the kitchen where she watched her son grow up. “I can’t believe it was 20 years ago today. I’ve been reliving every minute of it. I just keep seeing his face.”