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Recently, I watched a movie called "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father." Here's the Netflix description:
Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's poignant tribute to his murdered childhood friend, Andrew Bagby, tells the story of a child custody battle between the baby's grieving grandparents and Shirley Turner, Bagby's pregnant ex-girlfriend and suspected killer. Initially, Kuenne made this documentary as a memorial for Andrew's loved ones, but it morphs into an emotional legal odyssey when Turner goes free on bail and is allowed to raise her son.
This movie is seriously, heart-wrenchingly hard to watch. But it's also really interesting to see a psychopath in action, through her dynamic with Bagby's parents and with the legal system and child protective services. The custody battle they went through was indeed a battle; it's almost unbelievable how even the courts were catering to this murderer, treating her almost as if she was a wrongly convicted woman caught in an unfortunate situation. It just goes to show you how efficient psychopaths are at manipulation.
I won't spoil the end for the people who haven't seen this, but I just find the Bagbys' story so unfortunate. I can't imagine trying to do the legal thing in this situation, while sitting there watching such horror unfold, and not being able to do anything at all.
Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne's poignant tribute to his murdered childhood friend, Andrew Bagby, tells the story of a child custody battle between the baby's grieving grandparents and Shirley Turner, Bagby's pregnant ex-girlfriend and suspected killer. Initially, Kuenne made this documentary as a memorial for Andrew's loved ones, but it morphs into an emotional legal odyssey when Turner goes free on bail and is allowed to raise her son.
This movie is seriously, heart-wrenchingly hard to watch. But it's also really interesting to see a psychopath in action, through her dynamic with Bagby's parents and with the legal system and child protective services. The custody battle they went through was indeed a battle; it's almost unbelievable how even the courts were catering to this murderer, treating her almost as if she was a wrongly convicted woman caught in an unfortunate situation. It just goes to show you how efficient psychopaths are at manipulation.
I won't spoil the end for the people who haven't seen this, but I just find the Bagbys' story so unfortunate. I can't imagine trying to do the legal thing in this situation, while sitting there watching such horror unfold, and not being able to do anything at all.
