will never go away. i m never going to have my son back. i don t get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! it was like a meteor hitting. potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. he s a soccer coach! great person on and off the field, a great role model. there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. they don t have the fingerprint. they don t have blood. they don t have the witness. there s a darkness that s at work here. you believe nick hillary killed your boy? yes. people call me a murderer. i m 100% innocent. you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. way upstate new york. a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. that they like to joke up there that there s more cows than people, and i don t think they re joking. in this sleepy place, with a main street from th
father of three who d drifted from his kids mother, met tandy at that bar. him drinking guinness and diagramming plays on a cocktail napkin. what do you think the attraction was, tandy? conversation was just it was easy. the one thing that i liked about tandy, she had goals and ambition. things between the two heated up quickly, as these e-mails attest. from nick, i miss you millions. have a great work day. from tandy, i can t wait to get home to you. i love you. they were sharing a house, blending families, and going on vacations as a couple. nick took her to jamaica. but as they say in the islands, it wasn t a cool breeze being an interracial couple in potsdam, which is over 90% white. and, he said, it was particularly hard on garrett, tandy s boy. garrett was being teased at
he was the glue that kept us all together. he brought us together. he arranged dinners at his house. he cooked for the whole team. is that the rasta pasta nights? the rasta pasta. absolutely. i mean, it was a staple of who we were as a group. after the championship season and graduation, nick kept leading. he became a coach and, in 2009, landed a plum job, head soccer coach at clarkson, just minutes from his alma mater. life was good. it got even better when nick, a father of three who d drifted from his kids mother, met tandy at that bar. him drinking guinness and diagramming plays on a cocktail napkin. what do you think the attraction was, tandy? conversation was just it was easy. the one thing that i liked about tandy, she had goals and ambition. things between the two heated up quickly, as these e-mails attest. from nick, i miss you millions. have a great work day. from tandy, i can t wait to get home to you. i love you.