Maureen Maher

It took 23 years to get the answer of why.

You can't see too far in front of you.

It really is kind of taking one step, but then another step, and another step.

It's about a two hour drive down I-55.

Then I go just about every other month.

Nancy is always in my heart when I make this drive.

This is my one story and it's been incredibly healing.

When I first started in this journey, I had no way of knowing that I would be in the place I am now.

We're in front of Pontiac Prison, where I come to visit the person who killed my family members.

I can't close him off.

He is part of this story.

So you believe he deserves a second chance.

He deserves an opportunity.

Yes.

To perhaps get out.

Yes.

I knew the first time I went there to see him in that prison that I'd be shaking the hand that held the gun that killed her.

Winnetka is this village on the North Shore of Chicago, right along the lakefront.

More than 25 years after the brutal murder of her sister Nancy and brother-in-law Richard, Jean Bishop still lives in the wealthy Illinois suburb they grew up in.

It was such a happy childhood.