Two mothers lost their sons, boyhood friends, 26 years ago. They have been searching for justice and some semblance of peace ever since.
Milena Phillips, right, and Maria Keever are seen Wednesday as they arrive at the office complex in San Francisco where the California Supreme Court was to hear the appeal of a death sentence for the killer of their sons.
“Just about every night I cry and talk to Charlie. Every night,” said Keever, 72. “It’s like a tape recording in my head. From the minute it happened, it just goes on and on. I don’t know how I’m not crazy.” For eight years, the crime that detectives testified was the worst they had ever worked went unsolved. Then advances in DNA testing locked on a suspect, Scott Erskine, who was already serving a 70-year sentence for the brutal rape of a woman that took place later in 1993.
It will be 90 days before the justices rule on the appeal, but lawyers with the Attorney General’s office told the mothers after the 20-minute hearing that they were confident it would be rejected.Maria Keever, left, and Milena Phillips chat while on their way to San Francisco to attend a California Supreme Court hearing about the appeal of a death sentence for the killer of their sons.
“I don’t feel like it’s revenge; it’s just justice,” Phillips said. “You don’t kill kids. You don’t kill people. We’re talking innocent kids doing nothing. He purposely murdered them for his own sexual pleasures. He needs to be punished. That’s not revenge. I don’t believe in revenge. I do believe in justice.”
Twice in the early years of his death row incarceration, Keever went to the prison to speak with Erskine, but he declined.
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