Kendall Rae

Quake is the definition of...

of a coward.

There is no part of him that even has the capability to just own up to what he does, because that is what a man does, and Quake is not a real man.

And his defense actually tried to claim, and this is not that shocking, that he was not mentally fit to stand trial, but an examination by a professional proved that he wasn't mentally impaired at the time of the murder, therefore he was going to trial to face the possibility of death.

However, in September of 2021, Quake did change his plea to guilty, not because he decided to take responsibility for what he has done.

No, he did it to avoid the death penalty.

And he was then given a sentence of life in prison without parole.

And when he was sentenced, there were over 60 people in the court

room in support of Sydney and her family and all of them were wearing pink which was by far her favorite color.

That's of course why I have the background set to pink today.

I knew it was her favorite color.

I wanted to in a small way try to honor her and let her family know that I support them and I think it's so cool how many people wore pink for her that day.

And it was just incredibly powerful to see.

And when Maggie gave her victim impact statement, she told Quake to look her in the eyes when she was talking to him.

And I thought that was so brave, so powerful, because so often we hear of these monsters not even looking at the victim's family when they're in court.

So I was really impressed.

that she had the courage to tell him to look right at her.

She then told him that Sydney was not his to take and described how he had the nerve to hug her with the same hands that he used to kill her baby girl.

Both she and Dion told him what a monster he is and how special of a person that he stole from them.

Dion specifically said, quote, "'You're a 300-pound coward that hit my 100-pound daughter with a 3,000-pound truck,'