Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Dear Zachary


Here is a documentary that looks to be pretty powerful and a picture of the best and worst of what mankind can be. Here's a synopsis: "On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John’s, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew’s child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew’s oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he’d never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the U.S., the film’s focus shifted to Zachary’s grandparents, David & Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their son. What happened next, no one ever could have foreseen…"

The main reason I started this post was because I love the song that is at the end of the trailer and that can be listened to in its entirety here.

2 comments:

Taumi said...

Wow, what a heartbreaking story, but somehow there is hope shining through it.

Lyndsey said...

There is an add gadget option at the end of my page...or at least there was, and if I remember correctly, I added an html one. Hopefully thats right, you are making me dig into my memory bank!