Lost for Life

Hello, this is a

collect call from an

inmate from the Banner County Jail.

Hello?

How you doing?

All right, sweetheart.

How are you?

Not so good.

I know, baby.

I have to come home.

Baby, I know that. I'm sorry;

you're going to have

to stay strong.

Are you saying your prayers?

Yeah. But, Mom,

I want to come home.

Baby, I promise you that we're

working on that, okay?

I promise you.

When can I come home?

Huh?

When can I come home?

- Sweetheart.

- Can you try?

Honey, we're

trying everything we can,

I promise you. We're trying

everything we can.

There's nothing more in

the world than I want my

boy home with me. Okay? We're

doing everything we can here.

You know how much I love you, baby?

The prosecutors

are trying to get me

life with no parole.

Huh?

Should minors who

commit murder be sentenced to

life without parole?

This is a crucial question the

Supreme Court is going

to be deciding tomorrow,

that 38 states currently allow life

without parole for minors

who commit murder,

but is it constitutional?

So the court comes

to a fork in the road.

Make a complete ban on life

without parole for adolescents

or set an age limit?

Many lives hang in the balance.

Their brains

are not fully developed,

they will change, they will

grow. Is this something that we

can judge them for for

the rest of their lives?

After Bar was questioned by police,

he was charged with the

12-year-old's murder.

Anyone who knows to muffle the gun

so nobody else hears it has

the mind of an 18-year-old.

I think everyone is

more than the worst

thing they've ever

done and I think that policy

makers can make decisions

about how to punish them.

But I think children

are uniquely more

than their worst act, they

have quintessential qualities

and characteristics that a

decent society, maturing

society, an evolved society

we believe is

constitutionally obligated

to recognize and protect.

High school is a very hard time.

I had no idea who I was. I had

no idea where I fit in

among my peers, and I thought

that I was a nobody at my high

school and I wanted

to be known. And so I tried all

these different identities and

I couldn't, you know, find an

identity that I could not be

pushed out of, I guess.

So I got into Columbine.

We saw these two kids, they were

white and they had dark hair.

upwards of a dozen people

were injured and running out of...

Columbine kind of created

a subculture for

disenfranchised kids

who don't fit in anywhere.

I saw, at the time,

they transcended their high

school, for the hour that they

did what they did, they were in

the spotlight and that's

what I wanted.

I wanted to be in the spotlight.

Actually I was really

happy to do it.

Oh yeah?

Hey, look, it's Cassie.

Hey, look, I don't know her.

Hello, Cassie.

I'm getting you on tape, okay?

Say hi, please.

Hi.

Okay, see you.

When I first met Cassie

Stoddart, I think that the first

memory I have of her is

we were joking around

in class and she was

smiling and that's vivid, the

image I have in my mind now, is

I can't get it out of my mind.

And, oh, man,

it's hard to talk about...

but, in the beginning

she was just a nice person

and she...

you know... sorry.

I was attracted to her.

I thought she was a special

person but she

started going out with this

other kid I knew in

high school, and it kind of

struck me hard and I was like,

"Okay, so, I am a loser."

Wait, have you seen Torey? He's

supposed to meet me here at 7:30

and it's 8:
19. He's an hour late.

You don't even care, do you? Okay.

I met Torey Adamcik

in sophomore year.

He started talking about the

movie "Scream," how it would be

cool to actually do a

"Scream" type crime.

And I was like, "Okay."

He's like, "Have you ever

thought about that? " " Not

really. I've thought about other

things like Columbine." And he

really was into that and I was

like, "Well I could either be

alone or I could join his

plan and be with him and not

be alone."

Torey got there;

there was about eight

months where we would come

up every three weeks. And we'd

leave right after work on

Friday, drive up all night, come

stay in the hotel. We

wouldn't miss a visit or

anything. Torey is a

good kid and we enjoy

the visits, we have a good time

and Torey is the

same person he was

before he went in.

My mom still

treats me like a mom and

she tells me to

brush my teeth as she is leaving

and exiting and tells me to

go to bed early or whatever,

just the typical stuff but, I

don't know, I think they're

just worried about me.

Just really good kid.

Torey is a good

kid and Torey is just a

kind, kind, kind person

and we're still family.

He's still every bit as much a

part of our family as before.

I remember the first

article I read about my case.

Jeez, they made me sound

like this brutal, cold,

psychopathic killer.

They were talking about Brian.

They were making you

just like Brian.

They put us like

as the same person.

They lumped them together.

I only hung out with him

for six weeks before this

happened.

I think it's crazy how...

the last week of me being on the

street and being free really has

affected the rest of my life.

If you were to watch that video

and nothing had happened,

it would literally be a joke.

I don't know if it was

my... it was probably my fault;

I should have seen

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