I am, just under the surface, perpetually angry. Mr. BAGBY: Without those cell phone records, they couldn't formally charge. He was in, Mr. SHEARS: I would cook supper sometimes when she wasn't around. Some of her earliest memories are watching Survivor with her family and having everyone show off their best Jeff Probst impersonation. (Supreme Court building; Shirley being escorted from court; photos of Kate and. Dance with the Devil is a eulogy for a dead son, an elegy for lives cut tragically short, and a castigation of a broken system. Mr. KUENNE: He warmed up to me as the--as the week wore on, MORRISON: But the Bagbys were especially anxious. Unfortunately, there is not court case, as the accused murderer killed herself. The book is not written as a narrative, with suspense building until we find out what eventually takes place. In the beginning, Kate did not pursue any romantic relationshipswith the single menin the house, but David almost immediately started flirting with the single women. ', KATE: He's so loved. Since their son was murdered in 2001 and their . the eventual turning of a bill they drafted actually becoming law. She was, pregnant, and the baby was Andrew's. MORRISON: Winter is capricious in Newfoundland; repeatedly, spring is briefly offered and then taken back again. By 6 p.m. she left for Keystone State Park, where she and Andrew had agreed to meet after his hospital shift. And Shears says his mother was good to him when he was a child. He had been shot five times - in the face, chest, twice in the buttocks and once in the back of the head. I don't know how they are still living, but he described their heartbreak and pain so effectively. Mr. BAGBY: That's one of the options, and that's the one we hoped for. to let out hints that Shirley Turner was the prime suspect. For those who've asked how Kate & David Bagby are doing now, here's a lovely article from Diane Crocker at Newfoundland's The Western Star. Two days later, at 5.30am, Turner turned up at his Penntment, sylvania apartment, having driven 16 hours to see him. One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now). In the, tribute documentary their son's best friend Kurt Kuenne was making to someday, give Zachary, the Bagbys' friends recount how difficult it was for David and. At times, one would pull the other back from the brink. They both rejected her, and she responded by killing them. Mr. BAGBY: I have a lot of trouble with those things too, and I suspect what really goes on, what's called intuition, is really a very, very complex calculation of lots of little indicators, little things that Andrew said on the phone maybe. thing, because up until Andrew was murdered, I was a Pollyanna. Zachary himself was murdered by his mother as well. More appropriately, it is written assuming we know the story and want to find out details of the why and the how. Content-wise, this Is exactly what I wanted and more. I'm sure she died thinking she had won, but I also hope her she is living her justice now, in hell. I, Mr. BAGBY: (Audio recording) Look, we will do what is best for Zachary. KATE: I knew exactly what my son looked at before he died. Very brave parents. Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) Or what about the one of me and Andrew? The Bagbys were confident Turner would be returned to Pennsylvania for trial in a matter of weeks. "This was our goal," said Bagby. I suggest you keep any heavy items out of reach because you will want to throw them at the television screen & a box of tissues because you will need them. MORRISON: It was November 2001 when Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28 years old, was found in hospital scrubs lying facedown in the state park in Derry Township, Pennsylvania. David Bagby. Being from Newfoundland,I was well aware of the happenings in this book as they were happening. Do you understand? I guess they just clenched their teeth and did it.. No spoilers here for my friends but you must watch this film. Shortly after being taken into custody, Turner announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child, a boy she named Zachary. Cpl. IE 11 is not supported. So I gave her the. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Woman #9: to make that journey was awful. HEATHER: I was so excited that he was dating somebody. "It was a policeman and he was telling me: 'Your son is dead under suspicious circumstances.' They would go to Pennsylvania to . The treatments worked a sweet miracle and on Sept. 25, 1973, Andrew David Bagby was born. Suspicion immediately fell on an ex-lover, Shirley Turner, well-known among Andrew's friends and family for her one-sided obsession with Bagbyan obsession that led to her driving sixteen hours back to his home after their final breakup the day before Bagby's body was discovered. The Turner report says their relationship soon deteriorated. Some of, those frames even at the dollar stores will say--there'll be little sayings on, Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) if you want to say `Mommy and Daddy' on a. frame and stick a picture of me and Andrew in it, I don't know. (Photo of David and Kate; airplane; lake and coast), MORRISON: But here's the thing. (Shirley in court; Supreme Court of Newfoundland sign), Mr. BAGBY: And then they started slogging through the courts with one issue, MORRISON: In the meantime, Andrew's parents made a momentous. MORRISON: Andrew's body was discovered the following morning with bullets lodged in his face, buttock, chest, the back of his head. Unable to add item to List. MORRISON: When you did find out that she was pregnant, what was your thought? (Kate and Zachary; judge in court; Shirley being escorted from court), Mr. KUENNE: I don't know. That little boy, with the blue eyes and pudgy cheeks. Understood? But I used to look at her hand and think, it. MORRISON: It's no easy thing to be a doctor in America. The legal system helped her kill Zachary. Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) It's either in my closet or my bedroom. This year is different. The new law enhances ongoing child welfare improvements that can be traced back to Zachary's death, he said in an interview. Well written from the heart and to the point. I just want to get through medical school.'. It is a cry for change in the Canadian justice system that allowed his sons killer to roam free. MORRISON: I never know what to think about these feelings that people get. Time to stay civil with the woman who killed their child. In fact, Turner would travel frequently from Iowa to visit Andrew in Latrobe, something shed done the week before he was killed. I had a son I used, (Photo of young Kate; photo of Kate and David; photo of Kate and Andrew), KATE: And then suddenly you're in the pits, and then you have to learn that, MORRISON: Two weeks after Zachary's murder, the press covered a, Mr. BAGBY: (Press conference) We believe that the legal system helped her to, MORRISON: Charging the child protection authorities dropped the, ball, and that a disastrous bail system allowed a probable first-degree, (Zachary; court document; Shirley and Andrew). I said, `This woman was in town. David Bagby says there were no thoughts of suicide at the news of Zacharys killing. HEATHER: You are the most amazing, strongest people I've ever. If one thinks the American justice system is slow moving and against the victim most times, then one should encounter the Canadian justice system. Did anybody want to take them? David says. I can only imagine this book to be heartbreaking. Shirley, held his birthday party at McDonald's. She flew back to Iowa in a rage, David Bagby says. Whom was also a doctor. Some months ago I watched the documentary, "Dear Zachery" on Netflix. It was like they had gone back to what it might have been like when they first got married.. MORRISON: How did you find out what happened, how he had been killed? MORRISON: What did you think when you heard that? Thus, the film largely revolves around Andrew's death and the impact it had on his friends and family. And if they don't charge her, they had no way to restrict her travel. then one day I realized what it was. She woke the baby and carried him up the stairs to her home, David recalls. Afterwards Turner ran off to Canada (she had duel citizenship) before Pennsylvania Cops could arrest her for Dr. Andrew Bagby's brutal murder. Mr. BAGBY: We first got to see him personally in family court. But the interview never happened and the social workers brief report was one of the last notes to ever go into Turners file. You know? because it's hard to get off Newfoundland. I became very emotional with this horrifying tale of injustice. Though the 1,100-page Turner report says Turner maintained a fairly active social life while she was fighting extradition, the investigations narrative includes a number of signs that some of her personal relations were strained. KATE: You get a different kind of relationship with God after this kind of. A tale of sorrow and survival. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. This book ends in heartbreaking tragedy. By the time they arrived at Turner's house, Zachary was asleep and Kate and David prepared to leave. Zachary thought he could just walk. It's pretty easy to analyze what the, options are. And I know, you love me, and--yeah. A couple whose son and grandson were murdered are celebrating a new law that empowers Canadian courts to refuse bail when a suspect's child may be in danger. They have the memory of their son, Andrew, and the memory of his son, Zachary. On a shelf in the California home of David and Kate Bagby, sitting inconspicuously among some lovely china, are two urns. I was like, `Oh, OK, yeah.' The first time I had to go into a room with her, David says. Mommy misses you. They had tapped into their retirement accounts to get by. The two also had trust issues they were trying to overcome on Temptation Island,as they had both cheated on their previous partners. "We had a complete meltdown," says David. May give you a new appreciation for being an American. Theyll find her. The next thing a police constable is at the door., Two bodies have been found on the beach, the officer said. Kate and David married five months later. Next: Temptation Island: Where To Follow The Season 3 Single Girls On IG. In November 2002, when, Zachary was four months old, a Canadian judge ruled that a properly instructed, jury would likely find Shirley Turner guilty and ordered her incarceration, while awaiting a decision from justice officials to surrender her to the, United States. show takes four couples who are having trouble. I kind of. As the Bagbys settled into their renewed life, Turner pursued an appeal of her November jailing. But something kept me going, and. Then, 8.5 months after Andrew Bagby was murdered - July 18, 2002 - Turner gave birth to a boy, who she named Zachary Turner. By Zacharys birthday in July 2003, Turners fight against extradition had suffered another blow. I was just hoping more from this book, but I can understand it. The movie had me in tears and in rage all at once. The murder-suicide was a huge news story in Canada. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in . "She was not the woman you wanted involved with your son. But before that could happen, Shirley was apparently deemed neither, dangerous nor a flight risk and almost immediately released on bail, most of, it posted by one of her mentors from med school, a psychiatrist to whom she'd, gone for treatment after Andrew's murder. I thought it was just going to chronicle a murdered man's life, for his son to reflect back on when he was older - because his father was killed before he was born. After seeing the documentary about this case, "Dear Zachary," I was itching to get my hands on this book. She eventually kills Zachary in a murder-suicide. It could spare other families the rage and pain suffered by the couple since the murder of their grandson, Zachary, at the hands of his mother in Newfoundland. (Talking in group) This is not about money. One day he walked into the electronics shop where David worked. granddad? I sat there. And a desire to write about a Canadian justice system that is fatally flawed. "The birth of Zachary gave us part of Andrew back," says Kate. I was just gone. This is tragically cut with one of Andrew's friends remembering that he was never latewhich is how he knew, when Andrew didn't arrive to his house as planned, that something was terribly wrong. KATE: (To Zachary) Kurt knew your daddy when he was a little boy. The Bagbys went to the morgue to identify their bodies. But their efforts to safeguard him weren't enough and they saythat both the justice system and the child welfare system failed them. I had a husband I loved. I cried with rage, almost like the Bagby's and I normally do not get emotional when it comes to true crime novels. AN AMAZING BOOK WHICH HONOURS TWO AMAZING LIVES. Zachary ends up killed by his wicked mother to spite his family and the Canadian courts, while also getting away with murdering his father. (Photo of Shirley; Zachary; photo of Shears and Zachary), Mr. SHEARS: There was a conversation one time she had with me and Erica, in, regards to if something ever happened to her and she had to go to jail or. MORRISON: And then, in the spring of 1995, Andrew found someone, a Newfoundlander, also a doctor in training, a woman named Shirley Turner. It was a tiring day for the toddler and he fell asleep in the back seat of the Bagbys car on the way to Turners apartment. MORRISON: A couple of hours later, there was another knock at the, Mr. BAGBY: Told us what happened. They watched the legal proceedings grind, infuriating and slow. Unidentified Man #25: I love them very much. Zachary held his hands out, reaching for Kate.. They did their best to keep their dark feelings about their son's accused. I have some hope that telling this story in detail has a chance to cause change in the law, David says of his book. On Nov. 3, Andrew drove Turner to the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. The Bagbys are extraordinary people. . Neither speaks for the other. Zachary Andrew Turner was born July 18, 2002. Please try again. Theyre as much in love as any couple Ive ever seen in my life, anywhere, says Andrews lifelong friend Kuenne. She was granted bail and awarded custody of the child despite the fact that she faced charges ofpremeditated murder and had fled the U.S. David and Kate Bagby moved to St. John's. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) I was really upset when you took him today, because I feel like I did the day you saw him at Unified Family Court. Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) Then I can't consent to more time right now. "With Andrew gone and then Zachary gone, we didn't give a damn about putting up a Christmas tree or lights outside or any of that stuff," Bagby said from their home in Gilroy, about 30 kilometres south of San Jose. The world is a better place because David and Kate are in it! And he was crying, so I went into the ladies room and sat there, KATE: Made her very angry. I got to see what happens to the bastard who did this. For David, of course, there is the book, but there is also the caldron of emotion that refuses to let him rest until hes sure hes done all he can to prevent others from going through what he and Kate have endured. And he'd be like(turns. Family and friends go to extraordinary lengths to honor a legacy of a young man whose trust led to tragedy. Mr. KUENNE: He liked playing bad guys a lot. One of the best books that I have ever read. Ive never seen people react more passionately, intensely. (Photos of David and Kate with Zachary; Shirley being escorted from court). Extensive research, law proceedings are all included as well as other crimes that happened while the story takes place.Excellent read. I was lucky to get my hands on a copy of this hard to find book and was glad I did. (Sea at night; photo of Shirley and Zachary; autopsy report; photo of man; photo of Shirley and Zachary; Zachary sleeping; David and Kate), Mr. BAGBY: Kate just quit. But two months later, that would change, after Shirley appealed, again to be released on bail. The 10 most expensive reported home sales in Hayward the week of Feb. 20, Four take plea deals in wild Brentwood homicide where victim suspects shot each other, Feds charge two with robbing two San Francisco banks during the same day, One dead, another wounded in Oakland shooting. First, the provincial and territorial courts must determine whether the accused should be jailed in Canada as the proceedings move forward. Newfoundlanders tend to trust each other, perhaps it's because, generally, With a skilled lawyer on hand to do Shirley Turner's bidding, the. Did anyone have more friends than he? This is an amazing true story that waswell, not conveyed with the same fiery delivery seen in the film "Dear Zachary". But with special people, yes. 1 Photo. They were living like students, says the Rev. "All I could say was: 'My son is dead? Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot concedes defeat, Southern California home sales fall to all-time low, Denver just got a direct flight to this Caribbean island known for music history and vegetarian cooking, NYC Mayor Adams dismisses need to separate church and state, declares himself a servant of God, Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. "We never expected it. Mr. KURT KUENNE (Director): I decided to go on the road to interview people, because I thought, you know, he's never going to have a wedding. MORRISON: Was it reasonable for the court to trust her? And now a vindictive stalker had killed him shot him again and again until the gun wouldnt shoot any more and left him to die in the November cold of a remote parking lot near Latrobe. 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