Chris Giles
Appearances
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It was kind of her escape, where she kind of felt normal. And then your mom decides to move to Colorado.
20/20
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Your mom goes through all this, seemingly happy again, and all of a sudden, this happens.
20/20
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How did you learn that Alan had died? She called me. He called me and told me that, um, mid-shot. Still kind of another shock to the system. Another loss. Yeah, another loss.
20/20
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How was she coping? Oh, it was not good. You know, it was, you could, it was, there was some brokenness there. I just knew that she was in a bad place. I was trying to help her through that stuff. What did you make of that?
20/20
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I heard the shot. Mom kind of runs out the door, and she's hysterical, just screaming, like a scream I've never heard before in my entire life.
20/20
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That was probably not the best decision to make. Not what I kind of would have done in this situation, but she felt she needed to do this. She felt she needed to.
20/20
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Yes. I woke up to the gunshot. You were just down the hall. Yeah, I was sleeping on the couch in the family room, and I heard the shot. Mom kind of runs out the door, and she's hysterical, just screaming. like a scream I've never heard before in my entire life. There's certain things in life that can't be faked. Did you question her? No.
20/20
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I know one of the things that came up is that my dad was left-handed. Well, my dad learned how to write left-handed because he had a cast on his arm when he was younger, so he was able to actually use his right hand too. And you had seen him depressed before this?
20/20
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It wasn't kind of until I was driving home one day and the Grand Junction police called me and said, is she living? I was like, yeah, she's with me. I don't know what's going on, but she's there.
20/20
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That was probably not the best decision to make, but I think at that point she was probably broken, just emotionally and mentally broken.
20/20
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Don't forget, you have to put on your jacket too. We're not used to the 30 degree weather that's awaiting us.
20/20
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So she's in the Demons Women's Correctional Facility. This will be the first time in probably about 15 years that I've seen her. I have not seen her since the trial.
20/20
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I think, for one, I didn't want to have to... Just see her that way. See her kind of broken and see her in that situation. I was also kind of mad. I was mad that all this had kind of happened.
20/20
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Yeah, you're trying to figure out how to deal with those things and you kind of got to deal with the, you got to deal with the pain, you got to deal with the hurt. Let's rock and roll. She's probably nervous like me, you know, a little bit nervous, a little excited.
20/20
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First thing she did was apologize. What did she say as soon as we sat down? She said, I'm sorry for everything I put you through. She said, I'm sorry that we had to go through this. But still, once we got to the Allen part, she was affirming that she was innocent of all that stuff. And so she kind of, we just hashed out kind of what had happened.
20/20
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Forgiveness is a big thing, you know. It's huge when you can work through that and go, I don't have to forget about it, but I can choose to forgive you for it.
20/20
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It was good. Typical kind of four family. You know, me and my sister were super close. Mom kind of led us to do our things, but was also there to kind of shepherd everything and help us through.
20/20
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We didn't really talk about it. After a while, things kind of, just kind of started going downhill.
20/20
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Mom kind of runs out the door, and she's hysterical, just Losing her mind, like a scream I've never heard before in my entire life. That was a dramatic change in your family. Yeah. The loss of father. Yeah, you just, you know, you're trying to figure out how to deal with those things. You got to deal with the pain, you got to deal with the hurt, you know? She turned to dancing after all this.