Carla Dimkoff

I was sitting in here, in this living room, and my husband was in the TV room, and I read this article about Christy Ringler, and...

I'm like, oh my God.

Someone has been convicted of this.

I'm telling you, I literally just about fell on the floor.

I said to her, you might think I'm a crazy woman or something because I'm sure you don't get these phone calls all the time.

But I know this Larry Souter story that you're working on.

And I reported that my dad killed that girl.

I cried for a long time.

Weeks.

My husband literally had to help me out of the car.

I was trembling so much.

And I knew who he was right away when we walked in.

And we just both kind of collapsed in tears, and I wasn't sure why he was crying, but I was just so overwhelmed with guilt that I could hardly look at him.

Because I

You can only apologize so many times and felt the need to do it all the time.

I didn't give Larry his freedom.

What he didn't do gave him his freedom.

If I was going to give him his freedom, I would have given it to him 13 years ago.

And I didn't do that, and that's where I failed.

No, but I knew what the right thing at the moment was.