“I’m kind of numb. I can’t believe that it’s really happened,” MacPhail’s mother, Anneliese MacPhail, said in a telephone interview from her home in Georgia. “All the feelings of relief and peace I’ve been waiting for all these years, they will come later. I certainly do want some peace.”
Peace will not come even if we were sure beyond a reasonable doubt that he commited this murder (which we are not). Peace will only come once she forgives the murder of her son.