On a quiet Sunday evening, I heard a car pull into my driveway. I wasn’t expecting anyone. But I knew that sound—it was Dean. The man who’d been calling me for weeks, telling me he’d kill me if I…
The call came in on a warm Sunday evening in August. Francis Thompson, alone on her farm twenty miles northwest of Verdigre, Nebraska, told the 911 operator she had just shot a man in self-defense. “He lunged at me and said he was going to kill me,” she said. “I shot him. ” That man … Read more