“And I can get you numbers on pleas that are within about ten per cent of what a jury would give me, because I have a toxicology report, a patch with a lot number, two cooperating defendants, a 911 recording and a funeral director’s desk pad.”

I told her to take the pleas.

Fernando Vance pleaded guilty in the November to attempted capital murder, injury to a child, and aggravated kidnapping.

Sixty years, concurrent, in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

He is eligible for parole consideration at thirty.

He was forty-one at sentencing.

He will be seventy-one the first time a board looks at him and our daughter will be thirty-six.

Claudia Vance went to trial in the January on the same counts plus engaging in organized criminal activity.