Linae Tiede

Justice had been served.

I felt a great burden.

I felt like they practically wanted me to be able to see the bullets coming out of the guns that they expected

me to point the exact gun in the direction of every bullet and where it hit at any given moment.

I actually just had a whole epiphany of new thoughts come to that, that I don't think that that was helpful for a victim to have to put a weapon that they watched their family murdered with, to even have to touch it.

What is the point?

The weapons were already on the table.

Why would I have to touch it?

Edward Deli received second degree murder instead of first degree due to one jury member deciding to hold out.

I felt like the courts did an injustice to our family.

I felt like that he deserved to be on death row as well, just like Taylor.

Deli murdered, Taylor murdered.

I went through trying to find happiness in areas where happiness doesn't exist.

I went through fear, fear of putting my heart out there, fear of loving someone or letting someone love me, that they would abandon me.

I believe it was 2001 I received a letter from Deli.

I thought about it for many, many years and would go to write him a letter and it just never felt right.

It took me over nine years to respond to Deli's letter.

I held on to the letter, and I reread it probably 20, 30 times.

I was just very careful and guarded with my feelings.

I basically wanted to get a feel if he was truly sorry.