Voices of Victims: Fernando Aguirre

Valentine’s Day Without a Valentine Fernando Aguirre was on his way home to his wife, Dr. Robin Aguirre to celebrate Valentine’s Day with her when everything went horribly wrong. Trust Misplaced Long ago, after becoming a citizen of the United States, Fernando trained to be a truck driver. This was his craft. He was good...

Voices of Victims: Marky McNeill

Seven Years Ago Feels Like Yesterday What were you doing on December 9th? While many of us were caught up in the hustle of the holiday season, Melissa McNeill was remembering a crash that 7 years ago snuffed out the life of her son, Marky McNeill. December 9, 2018 was the 7-year anniversary of the...

Voices of Victims: Krystal Foster

Thirteen Minutes Changed So Much The crash put her in a coma for a month. When she woke up, her entire life was different. Krystal Foster got off work at the normal time: 10:30 PM. She was happy she didn’t have to stay late like she sometimes did because tonight, her husband Chris had brought their...

Carl McDonald's Story

Her small shoes are here with me. Size one and a half, white with embroidered flowers and small red hearts across the top of the toe. Long gone is the little pink metal flake bicycle with handlebar streamers, the yellow cross-country skis with cartoon characters that barely reached over three feet long. Gone is the...

Karen Labarbera

Day on the beach – Done A quick trip to Waldbaum’s Shop – Wrapped up Nails – Awesome looking! Devastate and destroy the life of a complete stranger because of the choices one makes – Irreversible That’s how Cathy Dubas describes the day of the offender, who spent the day drinking on the beach when...

Alexis McKinney

The Story Alexis McKinney was counting the days until her 16th birthday. She had so much to look forward to: the birthday party that her parents were planning to celebrate with friends and family, starting her first job, applying for her driver’s license, and driving the Jeep that her father had purchased for her. Like...