Twenty-nine years of court dates and parole hearings have come down to this: Judy Sugar Bloom stands at the back of an ornate courtroom in Snow Hill, stunned and nearly speechless. He isn?t leaving prison today, the man who killed her father.

Or, as the judge said, the man who, in fact, didn?t.

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