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[Music] The journey of the last 25 years has really tested my faith. Palm Sunday 1990. I'm in my choir robe
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at the back of my church where I still sing in the choir today. [Music] This glorious music is playing. The
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church is full. Everyone is singing. It's this joyful procession. And the last thing I expected was to have the
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church secretary come to me and put her hand on my arm and say, "You have a phone call."
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And that's when my heart started to pound because I thought something's wrong. Really wrong. and it was my
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father on the phone and the first thing he said to me is that Nancy and Richard have been killed and he said someone
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killed them. This happy young couple with everything to live for with no enemies
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with no reason that anyone in the world should want to take their lives. And right before she died, she
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drew this message in her own blood by his body. There's the shape of a heart and the letter U. Love you.
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Amazing grace. My name is Jean Bishop and I'm the sister of Nancy Bishop Langert and the
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sister-in-law of Richard Langert. Who could have looked at NY's eyes, the beautiful light shining there,
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and pulled the trigger. Why? Why them? Why Nancy and Richard Langanger? It took 23 years to
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get the answer of why. Ready? Yep. You can't see too far in front of you. It really is kind of taking one step,
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but then another step and another step. It's about a 2hour drive down I55 and I go just about every other month.
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Nancy is always in my heart when I make this drive. This is my one story and it's been
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incredibly healing. When I first started in this journey, I had no way of knowing that I
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would be in the place I am now. We're in front of Pontiac Prison where I come to
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visit the person who killed my family members. I can't close him off. He is part of this story. So, you believe he
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deserves a second chance. He deserves an opportunity. Yes. to perhaps get out. Yes. I knew the first time I went there
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to see him in that prison that I'd be shaking the hand that held the gun that killed her.