Maureen Maher

And what if you were someone who didn't have the resources that I did?

They need a good advocate.

But Jean remained passionate that juveniles with mandatory life sentences, like David Biro, should be behind bars for good.

You even vowed not to say his name ever.

And I didn't for 20 years.

I would call him the killer, the intruder, the murderer, because what I wanted was for Nancy and Richard's name to live and for his to die.

That all changed after she met Mark Osler, a law professor who was on the opposite side of the juvenile justice issue.

Osler's mission is to seek reduced sentences and often clemency.

Jean may have forgiven Biro, but now she felt called to do more.

It was really...

My Christian faith being challenged that caused me to see David as a person, to say his name, to start to pray for him, to realize I had to move beyond just forgiving him and wiping him off my hands to engaging with him.

She started by writing her own letter to Nancy's killer in 2012.

I didn't even think about the outcome as I was writing it.

I just knew that I had to.

And I thought, oh my gosh, I have been sitting back for decades waiting for this young man to apologize to me.

I'm going to go first.

I'm going to say, I forgave you a long time ago, and if you want me to come see you, I will.

Several weeks later, an envelope landed in her work mailbox.

This is the envelope.

There's this name.