And Never See Her Again (Pinnacle True Crime) by Patricia Springer

Author:Patricia Springer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2008-06-29T01:05:00+00:00

"Did you see them there in the front yard?" Foran asked.

"I saw them most of the time, but they could step out of my view," Teresa responded.

Teresa explained that she could hear Opal, Austin, and their friend Spencer running and yelling, being kids. Then she heard Austin crying.

"Would you describe for the jury what drew your attention?" Foran prodded.

Teresa took a deep breath. She would never forget the sound of her grandson's cry that day. She heard it in her dreams, on occasion even in her waking hours. It made the hair on the back of her neck stand.

"He was crying like I had never heard Austin cry before. He was just totally brokenhearted and devastated. I had never heard him cry like that," Teresa said, her voice a bit lower than before.

Ricky Franks sat expressionless between his attorneys. His head was held high, but his eyes avoided Teresa Sanderford as she continued to tell the jury about her grandson's cries.

"What did you do when you heard that?" Foran asked.

"I went immediately outside. He was sitting right outside the front door in a chair, a little settee my mother had set out there. He wasjust crying," Teresa explained.

"What did Austin say to you?"

"He told me that Opal was gone," Teresa said. "I asked him, `Gone where?' And he said, `Gone bye-bye."'

Spectators in the gallery shuddered as they heard the unsettling words of Opal Jennings's aunt. They could only imagine the terror the child's words had sent through her.

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