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"The Unforgiven"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Unforgiven By Curtis Cartier Santa Cruz News Aug 20, 2009 It?s a sweltering day in Tracy. July behind bars at Deuel Vocational Institution smells like sweat, bleach and old orange peels. Clifford Bair, a white-haired, goateed first-degree murderer?a lifer?perches under a barred window?s light and talks about the day 25 years ago in Bodega Bay when he tied up Theresa Aiken and Rose Fomasi with electrical wire and left them to die. ?I?d been up for three days drinking and doing speed,? says the 64-year-old convict. ?After I tied her up, I couldn?t believe it but I found her keys in a bowl by the door. I took her car and I left. All I had wanted was to take her car. I remember the detective telling me Miss Aiken had died in the night. I wanted to die too...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).