Maureen Maher

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.

I was the middle of three girls, my younger sister Nancy and my older sister Jennifer.

It's a community where many Chicagoans move to raise their families, and it was used by filmmaker John Hughes for movies like Home Alone to convey picture-perfect middle America.

It looks pretty idyllic when you're walking down the street.