Reply #18: more from another article

[Bertha Venation]

Thanks, alhedges. Everyones :hug:s are helping. I just wish I could get more IRL.

From the Daily Pilot http://www.latimes.com/news/local/pilot/news/la-dpt-crummel11jul11,1,4057769.story?coll=la-tcn-pilot-news (via the Los Angeles Times -- registration required)

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Trotter, who spoke in court on Friday, said making statements in front of the judge gave him the opportunity to "vent and release a great deal of pent-up anger."

Trotter implored Crummel to tell the parents of other children he might have murdered about where he left or buried their remains so that those parents could have some closure, he said.

Trotter said his younger brother's death left a void in his life that has never been filled.

"It doesn't matter what picture you look at or what memory you pick up, there's someone missing there and that'll never change," he said. "At this point, the healing will probably start, but our wounds will never close."

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God, Jeff . . . call me. Please, God, let me be able to help him heal.