this week and decided that, you know what? this might be the time, especially on this one, because it s a big leap for me. i m going to make a revelation today that that something that i ve not shared with anybody other than diane and marcia and mike. it s been nearly 30 years since mefford committed his crime, but the burden of hiding the truth about what really happened that night is about to be lifted. we re left with eddie, jack and shawn, and you said you want to go first, shawn? i didn t write it down. just as he s about to come clean and share what he has been hiding, mefford surprises everyone.
bit, and everybody knows that this is our pole. this is the christian pole. this is our circle and our area. standing in the knee of grace praise the lord. mefford leans on his faith to get him through today s therapy session. this will be the first time he tells the group about his crime. they have to make a crime impact statement, and basically what that means is tell us what you did. you re going to start right off getting used to holding yourself accountable, acknowledging what you did, letting everybody else know what you did. who brought their homework? shawn? i i took the events that led up to the crime, right, and past the crime.
prayer and fellowship a little bit, and everybody knows that this is our pole. this is the christian pole. this is our circle and our area. standing in the knee of grace praise the lord. mefford leans on his faith to get him through today s therapy session. this will be the first time he tells the group about his crime. they have to make a crime impact statement, and basically what that means is tell us what you did. you re going to start right off getting used to holding yourself accountable, acknowledging what you did, letting everybody else know what you did. who brought their homework? shawn? i i took the events that led up to the crime, right, and
i m serving a 54-year to life sentence under the california three strikes law. arthur mefford was a career criminal with a string of aliases. these days he goes by shawn. i did drugs out there. i chased women out there. i shot dope for 20 years, and if i wasn t using you for my betterment and you weren t doing what i was doing, i was running over you and didn t care. but with a rap sheet that spans decades, there s one crime that still haunts him. i walked by this house. i thought it was empty. broke into the house. was confronted by a person, and i subdued him. i ransackled his house.
group facilitator mike brewer has long suspected that mefford isn t telling the whole story about his crime, but now between his crossed-out homework and hesitations in group, the counselors believe mefford may be hiding something. mike brewer wants to know the truth. it s important to me and it s important to the group, too. we re talking about the victims, and the victim has that right coming and that s why i m here for. how you doing, shawn? what s up. i just came by to see how you were doing, how things are. doing pretty good. yeah. we re getting to the real meat part of the program so and i need to know i need to know you trust me. do you trust me, i mean real trust me, and you trust the other guys in the group because that s an important thing, right. been doing this quite a while, and you chose this crime that you re talking about, yeah. is there something that you re leaving out of it?