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Linda lives with physical and emotional challenges from the trauma, like I said.
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She is now back in therapy because Ernest has been released and it has brought all of this back up for her. I
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mean, ever since that night, 2008, Linda has never been left alone. She is always
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with her husband or a trusted friend or family member. And her husband has faced
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his own challenges, too. He had a stroke in 2013 and his doctors told him that all of this stress and worry that he
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carries could have been a factor. But you know what? He told us that he loves Linda. They have been married for 47
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years now and he would do anything to protect her and their family. When Linda's husband went to one of Ernest's
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hearings after his parole, he said that in his opinion, Ernest didn't even show any remorse, even after
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all these years. And he has never made any kind of formal apology to Linda or her family. One of those hearings was
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about a no-contact, stay-away order which meant that Ernest couldn't be anywhere near Linda or her granddaughter
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for like 10 years. But Linda's husband told us that when the judge asked him if he understood that, he didn't even
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answer. So, the judge had to ask him again, like, "Do you understand that?" And he says, like, "Yeah, I got it."
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Which to Linda's family felt like he was not taking it seriously. And so now, that neighbor who left Linda for dead
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lives just about an hour away from her. Even though he is 75 years old now, we know what he's capable of. And there is
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so much anger and fear that you can feel from everyone who has been affected by this case.