John Ferris
Appearances
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
There was a lot of things that came out in the trial that we didn't know. I wanted to hear that. I wanted to experience it firsthand in the courtroom.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I don't know that I'm an angry person. It was probably more frustration and the lack of closure.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
You could tell something big had happened and it got us excited. You know, it's like, what is this going to be?
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
You could tell something big had happened. And it got us excited, you know, it's like, what is this going to be?
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I don't think anybody who sat through that could have come to any other conclusion than a guilty verdict. But we wanted to hear that. We wanted to be there. We had waited six years.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
He was always smart. You know, growing up, he kind of set a precedent for our family. The oldest son.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
And so we were very close. We had a lot of fun roaming the neighborhoods.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
He decided early on that he wanted to become an attorney and made it happen. A lot of obstacles he had overcome, and he was so very driven.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
They got married very young. Very young, yeah. And he was a sophomore in college, had a child right away.
Dateline NBC
A Little Patch of Perfect
I think it was Emily that was texting us. She goes, there's nowhere to go. You can't come here. They won't even let us on the property. And I thought, why? I did not realize that it was this huge police investigation going on.