SEGUIN, Texas – Now a dispatch manager on the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office, Tracy Childress Albrecht was once simplest 5 years outdated in November 1983 when her grandfather, Wilson County Sheriff’s Deputy Ollie Childress, was once shot and killed in the trunk of his patrol automotive.
The two males he’d concept had been having automotive hassle grew to become out to be financial institution robbers who took him hostage and stole his blouse, badge and gun. They then handcuffed Childress and locked him in the trunk.
He was once shot as soon as and however after the robbers returned and found out he was once nonetheless alive.
Earlier this month, Albrecht mentioned she was once notified Pedro Sosa, the killer, had died in a prison sanatorium six years after his dying penalty was once in the end thrown out, and he was once given a life sentence.
“Forty years is a long time to try to get justice for somebody. But I think that’s as much justice as we’re going to get,” Albrecht mentioned.
She mentioned it have been an emotional ordeal “just to keep (Sosa) behind bars.”
Like lots of the circle of relatives, Roger Childress, Albrecht’s uncle and Ollie Childress’s son, mentioned he has no sympathy for Sosa.
Roger Childress mentioned when he’d observed Sosa in courtroom.
“He looked straight at me with a big old smile. He wasn’t remorseful at all,” he mentioned.
Roger Childress, who was once 30 years outdated on the time of his father’s dying, turned into a Wilson County deputy for a time or even drove his father’s patrol automotive after the trunk was once changed.
What took place to his father again then, he mentioned, was once unprecedented, but at the present time, “The way the crime is, and the way that people are, they shoot you in a heartbeat.”
Being in regulation enforcement, Albrecht mentioned it’s been arduous to care for the reality her grandfather’s killer escaped execution and can have been eligible for parole.
“Believing in the law, believing in the system, but having such little faith in it. It let me down personally,” she mentioned.
Yet she mentioned Sosa’s dying way their battle is over.
“It’s in God’s hands now,” she mentioned. “He’ll meet his ultimate judge.”
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