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48 hours we take you there 12 years ago these two young women were brutally murdered these girls were
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asleep in their beds minding their own business one of them was Paula's daughter when mity was murdered I just
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died can you imagine that your last thought in this world being of somebody stabbing you the killer was caught not
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need doubt in my mind he' have killed somebody else if we hadn't a call and he was sentenced to death his name is John
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Wayne Nobles but that's not enough for Paula she's been fighting to confront the killer ever since we've been
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imprisoned for 12 years and it's time for us to be free Bill Latuda reports your family doesn't necessarily think
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this is a good idea they think I'm crazy why in the hell would I want to see him
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in person now he's about to be executed there are some things that I want him to
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take with him that only I can give him I'm going to wear her picture right here on my chest and they are about to meet
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face to face a remarkable confrontation my daughter's [Music] killer it is one of the most
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gut-wrenching confrontations you can imagine the mother of a girl girl who was murdered finally getting her wish
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coming face to face with her daughter's killer you're about to see and hear a remarkable confrontation so rare So raw
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you may have to ask yourself why would she do it the answer is not easy it has to do with healing and with loss and
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with desperate efforts to get past the pain this is a story of memories and of persistence and courage too it's about
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taking a chance that few of us would take then again this is a confrontation that none of us would ever want to go
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through surely none of us should ever have to here's Bill Latuda she was very beautiful she had
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the biggest brownest eyes and her heart was so good this was the first newspaper
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article this was the crucifix from her casket in a handmade Cedar Chest in her Houston Texas home this was her little
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gawy stage Paula kland keeps her memories of her daughter Mitzy under lock and key I'm just extremely
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protective of the contents well you can see how old the papers are the first time I've gone through them in 10 years
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on most days even opening the chest is just too painful when MIT was murdered I just
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died but today Paula has to look for one favorite photograph I'm going to wear her picture
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right here on my chest that she'll wear to one remarkable meeting the last pictures he saw of her
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was her laying on the floor with 28 stab wounds that's the reason we're here in just a few days Paula Kurland will
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finally meet the man who murdered her daughter face to face I can't bring mity back but I can make her memory a lot
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more pleasant than it is now will this do that that's what I'm working for what could he possibly say to you that would
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make you feel any better I don't think that he can say anything that would make me feel
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better but I can say some things that'll make me feel better things she's been waiting to say ever since that terrible
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night in 1986 the night of mit's 21st birthday Mitsy came home late to the house she shared in Austin Texas with
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her roommate Kelly farquar these girls were asleep in their beds minding their own business mity had been out
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celebrating her birthday Carla Connelly was an Austin prosecutor it was very very brutal she says the horror began
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when an intruder broke in he jumped the fence of mity and Kelly's home went into
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the house through a back door when the girls started screaming the Intruder started
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stabbing first Kelly he slid her throat ear to ear almost decapitating her he killed Kelly then mity mity was huddled
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in the corner of a closet with her body covered and stab ones mity was stabbed 28 times she died
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a horrible death of frightening death can you imagine that your last thought in this world being of somebody stabbing
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you with the girl's dad the killer might have gotten away but that night there was someone
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else in the house okay you can thr The Rock when we get to the water these days Ron Ross
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lives with his wife and two kids just a few miles from the murder scene oh but back in 1986 Ron was mit's new
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boyfriend she was a beautiful woman she always had a smile on her face he'd been
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celebrating her birthday and had fallen asleep at her house she came back screaming my name into the room and it
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was Pitch Black and uh I reached up to turn on the light Ron bolted out of bed and fought for his life our fight was
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hand to hand face to face the whole time so Ron was stabbed 19 times before the killer turned and ran Ron made it
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outside and collapsed a neighbor called the police the crime here was brutal and
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frightening there was no motive and no suspect the police though did have one significant lead as he fought for his
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life Ron Ross had managed to turn the murderer's own knife against him cutting him in the arm now whoever he was
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wherever he was the cops knew the killer would be hurt and looking for help he drips blood onto the carpet out the
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walkway and all the way out the backyard onto the fence and onto the leaves police followed that blood trail
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canvased the neighborhood and found two witnesses who said a friend of theirs had just come by asking for bandages I
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got a call from Ronnie's father Bale said baby they got the bastard and I said you're kidding he said no and he
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said his name is John Wayne Nobles Jonathan Wayne Nobles a 25-year-old con with a history of petty crime and mental
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illness he'd been abusing drugs since he was 10 years old detective Dusty hcue made the arrest
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not doubt in my mind he'd have killed somebody else if we hadn't C him he was there when Nobles gave this chilling
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confession was she screaming I believe so did you start to stab her yes I did stab could you feel the knife going into
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her body I Rec call that sensation he just never never showed any remorse I mean it was kind of like he
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smiled all the way through the whole time in his confession Nobles never said why he committed the
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crimes later he blamed the drugs he had a terrible terrible past mental illness not any of us have had a wonderful
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perfect past and his abusive childhood but we didn't kill someone he did nobles off for the same reasons at his trial a
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year later but the jury didn't buy it the trial lasted more than a month and when it was over it took the jury of
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eight women and four men less than three hours to reach its decision the verdict
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guilty the sentence death then before he was led away to death row Jonathan Nobles did something
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nobody expected he spoke to Paula Kurland his exact words to me were I'm really very sorry and if I could give my life
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right now to bring hers back I would and I said that just isn't [Music] [Applause]
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enough more than a decade later it still isn't enough but now Paula says there is one
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thing that that might finally bring her peace of mind I sat in a courtroom with him for 13 months before he went to
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death row and I've been trying to see him ever since that's right amazing as it sounds ever since the
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trial Paula Kurland has wanted to go to death row he's sentenced to prison but so are
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we look her daughter's killer in the eye we've been imprisoned for 12 years and it's time for us to be free and tell him
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exactly what he's done to her it's going to help me close a chapter and hopefully
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get on with my life but year after year Nobles refused to meet with Paula until now 12 years since the
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murders less than 2 weeks before his execution Jonathan Nobles is finally ready to talk got 13 and he will
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when 48 Hours [Music] [Music] continues in loving memory mzy an ny on the 12th anniversary of her daughter's
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murder we should be celebrating your 33rd birthday instead of mourning the anniversary of your death Paula Kurland
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is placed ing a memorial notice in the newspaper none of us could ever express how much we still love and miss you just
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like she does every year but this year will be different for us we will at long last see Justice done for your death and
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this year will be different soon Paulo will finally meet Jonathan Wayne Nobles the man who
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murdered her daughter and two weeks after that he'll be executed why put yourself through this
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if he's going to die anyway because there are some things that I want him to take with
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him that only I can give him she's been trying to do that for more than a decade
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I don't know what I'm but PA Paula's requests to meet Nobles in prison were always denied it's been 12 years and
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it's time until she discovered a little known State program with a very long name victim offender mediation dialogue
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um our our purpose the people who run it shot these videos of the program at work
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this is real hard for me victims who want to get on with their lives God knows I felt angry like I've never felt
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in my life meeting the criminals who devastated their lives it's really important to me that I know about those
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last uh the last things he said and why would anyone want to do this well each meeting happens only if both sides agree
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to it and then only after months of preparation with a trained mediator David derler with victim services and
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like psychologists David derler this is not fun in games I mean this is this is real life it's the opportunity to see
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people at their very worst and at their very best derfler started the program he's the one who finally convinced
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Nobles to meet with Paula hey Jonathan today Jonathan Nobles Now 37 might not look or sound much like a killer I have
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to be accountable myself saying Jonathan you're guilty okay Jonathan you did this
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Jonathan you were wrong Jonathan it was a monstrous act like many convicted murderers he says he's found religion in
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prison and now before he dies he says he wants to do a little good by bringing Paula some peace that's one of those
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moral and spiritual obligations he's been working with David derfler for months go to the heart not facing that
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pain is far worse than than anything else derfler is helping Nobles figure out what to say when he has to look
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Paula in the eye I made a mistake I can't go back and change the past a mistake I mean I mean I make a
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mistake by leaving something at home I mean that a mistake by allowing myself to get so far out of control
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that murder became possible if the prisoner isn't remorseful isn't there a chance that this process could actually
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do more harm to the victims absolutely but the fact is that one of the requirements for them to participate in
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this process is to admit guilt and take responsibility but when the time comes will Nobles really take responsibility
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will he show remorse or will he try to destroy Paula kerland again he was manipulative then and I I think he's
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manipulative today Carla Connelly the prosecutor who put him behind bars has her doubts about his sincerity perhaps
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the man is being sincere perhaps I'm just being cynical but I question his motives and she's not the only one I
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don't want to get to know him in anyway I don't see why anybody would I wouldn't
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even give him the satisfaction to let him know I think about him your family doesn't necessarily think this is a good
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idea they think I'm crazy thought she was crazy I told her I thought she was crazy told me I was stupid and crazy
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Paula's own family has never understood why she ever wanted to meet Nobles he's not honest Killers can't be honest her
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sister Brenda he didn't just kill mity he killed every he killed everybody that that we loved you know her son Joe I've
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never seen him in person why in the hell would I want to see him in person can you understand that probably most people
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wouldn't want to sit in the same room with someone who killed their child not everyone feels the need to do what I'm
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doing but I think everyone should at least be open to it by all accounts this man is a manipulative guy and exactly
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can use words and say things and try and convince people of things that may or may not be true that's are you prepared
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for this guy he can say anything he wants to say it's not going to change what I feel at least that's what she
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thought until Nobles has been on Texas death row for the past 12 here Noble says something in a local TV interview
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that changes everything and could jeopardize the meeting the organ donation that's about love and respect
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it's not about anything for Jonathan Noble says he wants to become the first death row inmate in Texas history to
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donate his organs I think it's my responsibility to do what I can through today that which I
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believe is God's will but lethal injection leaves organs unusable Nobles would need surgery in a hospital before
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his execution we don't let death row inmates out end of story prison officials won't let it happen but Nobles
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wants to challenge that in court if there's anything of him walking around on the face of this Earth this
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will never be closed for me Paula thinks it's just a stunt to get a stay of execution now she's Furious he he can
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sit there and and tell me how remorseful he is till hell Freez is over this proves to me that he isn't
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remorseful and and he's not making us his victims any longer so here's the problem before
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Nobles and Paula can actually sit down together the mediator David derfler must give his okay if he thinks this meeting
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might just dissolve into a shouting match he'll call the whole thing off and right now he's
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worried my baby is gone and he sits there and talks about wanting to do good I an awesome responsibility at
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times because ultimately someone has to make the decision of whether or not it's
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safe enough for these people to get together the Oregon donation is not an issue I think that it's a wonderful
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beautiful thing just not death row inmate okay but but that makes it an issue derfer doesn't expect Paula to
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ever agree with Nobles just to agree to disagree so the meeting can happen this is non-negotiable he meets with Nobles
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again and asks him to write a letter laying out his case for organ donation maybe it will convince Paula I feel very
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uncomfortable asking for belief or trust from you but please reserve any judgments as to my motivation until I
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can stand before you face to face and you able to test these things for yourself I mean it it's absolutely
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unfathomable to me that he could have so much Gall and he says I'm sorry for what I've
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done and and I just want to bring some brightness in this life [ __ ] Paula is angry but derfler
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decides she's not too angry the past cannot be changed what do you do now the meeting will go ahead as planned the
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mediation will take place back in the the visitation area this is it huh I don't want to go
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in there and scream and rant and Rave and carry on likeing idiot may the Lord bless you may the
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Lord keep you transation I mean who knows how it's really going to go part of Christ are we
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ready once I get started talking I'm sure that a lot of things that I've suppressed for a lot of years
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will come out it's bottled in there and I'm ready to let the cork off face to face one
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onone when 48 Hours [Music] [Music] continues its official name is Ellis unit one the place is is horrible I mean
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even worse than that but here in in Texas it's better known as death row the end of the line for more than 400
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hardened violent criminals it isn't going to be easy it's the last place in the world you'd want to visit I'm
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nervous which makes what is about to happen this day but I'll be okay even more amazing Jonathan is going to see
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what he took thanks he's going to see mity just say a prayer okay he's going to see that she was real all I can do is
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pray that God just lifts me and takes me in there and holds me while I'm there Paula Kurland has waited 12 years to
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come to death row to confront Jonathan Nobles her daughter's killer I'm not going in there for him to say I'm sorry
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love you I mean sorry won't cut it Paula's family didn't want to be here so she's brought a few close friends for
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support David derfler the mediator is along to guide the conversation if he has to I imagine it's going to be
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extremely emotional before they begin you leave it in the hands of the Lord yes and first word is don't be afraid
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I'm not Paula gets a blessing from the prison priest grant them the grace that they may be reconciled with one another
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and then it's finally time to meet her daughter's killer face to face I'm willing to listen to what he has to
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say but I don't have to believe anything he says it's pretty hard isn't it it's the hardest thing I've ever done
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in my life dying is easier than this this is mity she was a real person Jonathan she
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was real and she was nothing to you but she was my whole life she was my baby you can't imagine what you've
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done you just don't know how much pain you've caused there's just no way that you
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could possibly know what pain you've caused what Devastation when you say that I cannot
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understand the pain that I brought no I can't no you I wouldn't even begin to suggest that I could but thank you for
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that and that's why I'm here do you realize you stabbed my daughter 28 times no ma'am I didn't remember the
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number it was 28 times when you murdered mity you murdered me my kids lost their
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mother can you give that back to me can you give that back to my kids oh Ma'am I don't know what to do with you
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Jonathan I just don't know what to do with you it's it's ripping me apart it's just
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absolutely eating be alive I don't know what to do with you it's just too much too much pain too many conflicting
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emotions excuse me John oh God have mercy as the sun sets over the barbed wire outside Paula has to take a break
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catch her breath and try to make sense of it all man but there is so much more to say yeah honey I'm okay I'm okay it's
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just she's just taking a break I'm just taking a breather they return to the meeting and find there is one thing they
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can agree on I was a beast I agree you scared a lot of people yes I did down the hall Paula's friends wait
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and worri Ronnie's Here and um he's really working very hard at this too one of those friends is Ron Ross mit's
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former boyfriend the victim who survived this is bringing up a lot of very painful things for him Ron's been
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offered the chance to meet with Nobles too I just didn't feel like I could be in the same room and and conduct myself
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when a sane manner but Ron doesn't even want to look at him back in the meeting Paula and Nobles talk for hours with no
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end in sight about everything I don't want you to die from the upcoming execution just to die I don't want that
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for anyone to mit's memory it's not very satisfying going to a cemetery and saying I love you mity to a piece of
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bronze to the one critical issue that might still mean a stay of execution for Jonathan Noble's organ donation you know
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that I started this organ donation issue a long time ago can I ask your permission for
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[Music] something if I can if I do do this can I publicly state that I'm doing this in memory of my
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victims I'm going to have to give that some thought Nobles tells Paula the story of his life of a right kid gone
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terribly bad growing up his high school threw him out the Navy kicked him out and his own mother tossed him out when
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he was 17 the last night I used was the night of the murders it was all he says because of drugs I started the 12-step
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program when I was in the county jail then as 3 hours turned to four and then to five I feel I've grown about 15 ft
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today something extraordinary begins to happen are you okay no me too Paula's anger is slowly giving
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way to not sympathy exactly but understanding I feel compassion for you Jonathan I don't know that I deserve it
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no you don't but you have it thank you you have anything else you want to say not this moment yeah me
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too they take another break let me go tell them I'm okay I know they're worried so Paula can reassure Ron it's
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all going okay I'm proud of you and I'm proud of you too I know how hard this is
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for you but I think it's going to be okay Ron and then it's time to go back in one last time David derfler the
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mediator speaks first if I could be so so bold uh to presume to use this time for your your closing statements to one
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another you first sorry it's not enough I brutally murdered your daughter I brutally murdered her friend
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MH I brought absolute horror into your life mhm I don't know what else to say other than I'm sorry and sorry seems so
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cheap so so very cheap I have Paula tried to change my way of thinking my way of life my way of
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living and that's not enough either nothing will ever be enough but I am sorry I honestly am sorry it's the
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second time Jonathan Noles has apologized to Paula Kurland the first was at his trial more than a decade ago
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that time she told him it wasn't enough this time it still isn't I wish I could just
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say it's okay but it isn't okay but Paula says she does now believe Nobles is genuinely remorseful and she is
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genuinely moved the best I can give you is my forgiveness I can never forgive what you
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did but the God that I believe in demands that I have to forgive you as a person I respect that thank you thank
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you PA for your sake Jonathan thank you you're welcome thank you and with that the meeting she fought for for 12 years
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is over okay now in Just 2 weeks Nobles is scheduled to die these people are going to take this arm and they're going
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to put a needle in it and they're going to inject me and I'm dead and forgiveness or not Paula still wants
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Nobles to pay with his life for killing her daughter I want to be the last person he sees execution day ahead on 48
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hours [Music] face to face with her daughter's killer the program that brought Paula kurlin
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into a Texas prison to confront Jonathan Wayne Nobles is unique these days many states arrange for the victims of crime
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to meet with their offenders but it's almost always for lesser offenses only Texas includes inmates on death row now
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even though she offered him a measure of forgiveness Paula still wants to witness
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Jonathan Noble's execution for the death of her daughter that part of their story
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a bit later on but first Troy Roberts reports on how such emotionally charged confrontations are looked upon in
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another state and on some victims who are in no mood for forgiveness he grabbed her brought her
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in here at approximately uh and this morning we picked up a suspect a Roy David Brooks 14 years after Jimmy
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Leland's wife was murdered that son of a [ __ ] didn't have to kill her next case
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is number 41 her killer Roy Brooks is being considered for parole you should never get a okay we're ready for in
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South Carolina unlike in Texas where Paula kurin lives there are no mediation hearings I've been here 10 years no
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efforts to bring the criminal and the victim's families together and that's exactly how Jimmy Leland
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likes it I don't believe I have to tell him how I feel uh if it would make him feel any worse I would but I'm not going
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to go looking for the chance to to tell him you know God he's got to know I mean he's got to
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know Jimmy Leland runs a commercial dock in mullenville a small fishing Village on the South Carolina coast Roy Brooks
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came here intending to Rob this post Jimmy's wife Evelyn worked at the town's post office he just hung out right here
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till she came through that door and when she did that's when he grabbed her Roy Brooks was her last customer of the day
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when I couldn't get an answer on the phone I knew something was wrong and then when I couldn't get an answer when
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I drove up here I mean I was shaking inside the post office Jimmy found his wife's body see she had been beaten
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that's where she was hanging then strangled with a canvas strap and I took my pocket knife and cut the strap and
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she was dead when you found her there is a picture here it's a great picture channel would have been two do
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you have any memories of your mom um vaguely vaguely Chandler Leland a college freshman was just 4 years old
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when his mother was murdered I grew up without a mother for you know so I guess whatever that whatever that's like I
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guess I missed that you don't know what to compare it to do you nope he's very bitter toward the fellow
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who did it I mean he hates him which I hate him too well hate yeah I do I hate him you don't have to be at this hearing
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no no no why are you going um it's never crossed my mind not that'll get me there and back number 16
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the next day in Columbia Timothy Gosset Jimmy and Chandler are there I'm ready to be a law Biden citizen the parole
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board has a full docket of cases to review next case is number 41 Roy Brooks we have opposition Jimmy Leland the
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victim's husband Roy Brooks's hearing is among 60 cases that'll be heard today before the state parole board he'll
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speak to the six member panel first then the Leland family will have their turn in South Carolina in contrast to Texas
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official policy you make always keeps perpet trors and victims far apart you do not see or hear the inmate and the
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inmate does not see or hear you the parole hearings are conducted by closed circuit television I've earned three
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degrees since I've been locked up in the board doesn't allow a direct faceof I would like you understand it up until
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this happened for 37 years I lived a pretty exemplary life during Brook's presentation Jimmy Chandler and their
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relatives are kept in a waiting room you remember when he was on the witness stand he never said he was sorry where
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the discussion turns to questions of fairness and forgiveness we thank you all for coming in if you step outside
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you all come in and have a seep please when the time comes to address the board if I can make a brief statement please
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right ahead Jimmy Leland speaks for the family just for the records because we'll be back again I'm sure but uh I
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hope he's comfortable where he is cuz we'd like to see him stay for a long long time he took a wonderful person
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away thank you the panel quickly reaches a decision all right Brooks said jaed numbers one two and three did you have
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to think long and hard about it no because he is his sentence was for Life Roy Brooks took a life not violent in
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any respect since they couldn't watch Brooks's testimony I said I just lost control of my life the family wanted to
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see our videotape of the hearing hell he didn't apologize for anything he never said he was sorry never time never said
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he was sorry did anybody hear him say he was sorry he's not remorseful and that's
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that's got to be the first stand remorse I am sorry I honestly am sorry I know you are Jonathan in Texas
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remorse made forgiveness easier to offer can you find it in your heart to forgive
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no Brooks not at all not at all I really don't see how I can forgive him I mean you had to be there but in South
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Carolina you love going in the creek in this case forgiveness is all but impossible now well as long as life
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lasts and his breath in me you won't get out I mean if I got anything to say about just ahead Jonathan nobl has been
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fasting all day today I'll be getting my life back witness to an execution the only way that I'm not going to die is if
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Governor George W Jr commutes my S payback for a daughter's death I want to be the last person person he
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[Music] sees today I'm going to go witness an execution I'm going to go watch a man
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[Music] die the closer it comes the more in tune to one's mortality you become you know
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and it and it's it's just not a good thing I'm going to be very sad I am very sad it's been 12 years since her
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daughter Mitzy was brutally murdered Our Father who are in him and two weeks since she confronted the man who killed
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her and told him he was forgiven he's probably having his last lunch about now now in just a few hours it's what 5
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hours now Jonathan Nobles will receive the ultimate punishment 5 hours and 10 minutes minutes and Paula Kurland
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composure will be there to watch the only way that I'm not going to die is if Governor George Bush Jr commutes my
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sentence and even Nobles knows a last minute pardon isn't likely these people are going to take this arm and they're
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going to put a needle in it and they're going to inject me and I'm dead yesterday the court made a final
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decision on Noble's request to donate his organs denied I feel sadness uh I'm going to grave for
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Jonathan it's a far cry from the way she felt just 2 weeks ago he's going to die
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here's what she had to say back then and I feel no sympathy for him but since their meeting Everything Has Changed
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it's just terribly confusing right now well almost everything but it doesn't change my
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views on the death penalty Paula still wants Nobles to pay for the murder of her daughter I can't even think right
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you it's getting closer and closer and closer now no was convicted of stabbing two Austin women to death back outside
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the prison Texas Rangers block off the street to keep death penalty protesters at a distance Jonathan Nobles has been
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fasting all day at a few minutes to 6 will you see everything yeah Paula and the other Witnesses are LED into the
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prison will you look at his face will you look at the surroundings will you will you hold someone's hand do you have
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any idea what you're going to do probably all of the above while inside guards walked Nobles from his cell to
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the execution chamber he's been basically in control of my life for 12 years and today I'll be getting my life
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back it's now 1 minute till 6:00 the hour Paula kland has been waiting for with mixed emotions for all these many
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years if everything goes according to schedule at 6:00 Jonathan Wayne Nobles will be given the three injections that
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when administered together make up the lethal injection the first one will put him to sleep the second will stop his
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breathing the third one will stop his heart it was a very difficult thing to witness by
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6:25 it's all over afterwards Noble's body is taken to a church down the street for a memorial
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service led by a bishop who met Nobles on death row in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit
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amen when you went into the room he was already on the gurnie yes strapped in yeah Lord accept the sacrifice we offer
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for our brother Jonathan he talked to you directly what did he say he just said Paula I love you and I'm sorry and
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then just before he died Nobles began singing singing Silent Night he just sang until he stopped singing until he
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stopped singing what was going through your mind when you watched him sing and then stop and then
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die well it just it just kind of took my breath away it was um bottom line did the punishment fit the
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crime yes yes this was the way it had to be done this is the way it had to be done and
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now for Paula it's time to start working on the toughest part of all getting on with her life I feel light I just feel
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like something has just left my body but first David came up to me and he said Jonathan has left something for you
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one last surprise from Jonathan nobl when 48 Hours [Music] continues I think that she would have
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been very pleased with the way everything went and I think she would have been proud of me for Paula kurlin
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the last few weeks have been an tional roller coaster from grief to anger and now remarkably to peace Jonathan isn't
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going to be a weight and a focal point in my life anymore with Noble's dad he can no longer haunt her David came up to
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me and he said Jonathan has left something for you or can he I was really kind of shocked just one day after his
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execution Jonathan Nobles gives Paula one more shock he's left her a gift a metal he wore around his neck I think it
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was a good thing to leave behind but is this a genuine sign of remorse or is Nobles manipulating Paula from Beyond
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the Grave to give it to someone is to give it with with love the medal goes in the Cedar Chest with mit's momentos the
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photos and the memories a good end to a terrible tragedy it's what Paula says she wants to do and I'll be able to let
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it go I'll be able to let mity rest which is going to be nice for my family [Music]
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