(Photos of David and Kate with Zachary; Shirley being escorted from court). Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference. This is the first example in this story of someone seeing something bad coming but not being able to stop it. Bill C-464 was introduced in the House of Commons on October 22, 2009, passed the House of Commons unanimously on March 22nd of this year and passed the Senate of Canada last Thursday, December 9th, where it was sponsored by Senator Tommy Banks of Alberta. Dr. Andrew Bagby was killed on November 5, 2001, by an older woman named Shirley Jane Turner, who he had dated at a low point in his life. "We had to do something.. It was for custody of their grandchild who looked exactly like his father that they moved to the city of their sons killer. Unidentified Man #21: (Talking in group) I know. I didn't have. I knew, exactly what my son looked at before he died. Dear Zachary recently won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Documentary of 2008 from the Society of Professional Journalists. Was it a tight bond? (Photo of David and Kate; airplane; lake and coast), MORRISON: But here's the thing. When Bagby said he was going to anyway, Simpson asked him to come to his house right after. ', MORRISON: But they'd have to wait almost a month. (Sea at night; photo of Shirley and Zachary; autopsy report; photo of man; photo of Shirley and Zachary; Zachary sleeping; David and Kate), Mr. BAGBY: Kate just quit. She turns to talking of her son and calls him Gods blessing. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. MORRISON: Zachary fell asleep in his car seat. And I said, `Who?' His father says, I kissed him and held him. Turner, the daughter of a U.S. serviceman and a woman from St. Anthony, met Andrew while they were attending medical school at Memorial University in St. Johns. (Talking in group) This is not about money. KATE: People thought she was delicate, you know, and looked KATE: She couldn't kill. Check your local listings for channel info. Please check back for updates as the bill makes its way through the Senate in the coming weeks -- and if you are a Canadian Citizen, please write your Senator to voice your support of C-464 during this crucial time. KATE: And she went over in the corner crying, and I gave him back. (Youll never guess who showed up on my doorstep, one of Bagbys friends recalls him saying. Mr. SHEARS: When we woke up in the morning, realized they weren't there. December 15, 2009: kind of panic sets in, I guess. Dear Zachary was a hit at Slamdance! If it looks like she's likely to go back, how is she going to behave? An unusually personal and powerful story of a murder, it may offer something of a counterweight to the forces of bias and prurience that often pull the genre off-track. But they also contribute to the feeling of watching something urgent and unmediated. With that kind of goodness, anything is possible. Schultz quotes the brother of Hae Min Lee, the victim of the murder at the center of the first season of Serial, responding, on Reddit, to the surge of interest in the case: I wont be answering any questions because . Except this story is worse. (Newfoundland; Shears driving; photo of Shirley and Zachary; water at night; Mr. SHEARS: She said Zachary was being fussy and that just driving him, around would calm him down. Bill C-464 when enacted will justify detention in custody for a person accused of a serious crime who is a potential danger to their own minor children. The news and opinions youll love for only $10 for 1 year. Mr. BAGBY: (Audio recording) Just got up. thoughts, his wife sees something that rocks her to the core. -. (David and Kate; photo of Andrew by tape being put into recording device; Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) Are you babysitting? MORRISON: And go she did, back to Newfoundland, Canada. thing, because up until Andrew was murdered, I was a Pollyanna. MORRISON: What did you think when you heard that? HEATHER: You are the most amazing, strongest people I've ever. Mr. BAGBY: (Talking in group) This is about making public exactly what, MORRISON: The Bagbys' public outrage had some results. helped convince me that she would not hurt Zachary. TO ME ITS REAL LIFE. Dear Zachary avoids the first pitfall by directly confronting the second. I can say it like that because even without a trial, the evidence was so damning we might as well have been next to her when she carried out the crime. Cpl. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Kuenne, a childhood friend of Andrews, started out to make the movie as a tribute to Andrew, but it kept taking on new meanings, first with Zacharys birth and then his death. Meeting her at 6. We're churning. Any reference to Turner as a flight risk, for instance, is accompanied by birdsong and pictures of flying pigeons. Kate went to the floor, and I kicked the door and--oh, we, just--just like with Andrew, there's nothing you can do. MORRISON: Was it reasonable for the court to trust her? That's what Kurt does, he's an independent filmmaker. It has been our privilege to have the trust and support of our East Coast communities for the last 200 years. KATE: I thought, `Well, God, this is it.' But of course I didn't. You dont get over it. Lastly, Dear Zachary was screened in Ottawa on March 11, 2009 for various members of Parliament and their staff; as a result, a small but committed group of Parliamentarians are now drafting a bill based on the issues raised in the film. Wait, thats not true, Sophocles came up with it when he wrote Oedipus Rex about a king who unwittingly fulfills a prophecy that foretold he would kill his father and marry his mother, and then pokes out his own eyes because hes in despair and you cant outrun destiny. This report aired Dateline Friday, July 23. It also recently won Best Documentary at the Orlando Film Festival and the Audience Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival. MORRISON: Andrew was the only child of software engineer David Bagby and his wife, Kate, a nurse practitioner. Mr. SIMPSON: You don't need to go out with a woman because you can't think you can do better. Welcome back toCold Comforts, a recurring column in which Soraya Roberts writes about the grim, harrowing, and downright bizarre movies and television shows that she nevertheless cant stop watching, over and over again. And if that picture never reveals itself, it feels like a letdown, not a tragedy. Kurt Kuennes 2008 documentary, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, deserves a second look, especially in light of the recent popularity of true-crime programs like Serial and Making a Murderer., Photograph courtesy Oscilloscope Pictures / Everett. Some of, those frames even at the dollar stores will say--there'll be little sayings on, Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) if you want to say `Mommy and Daddy' on a. frame and stick a picture of me and Andrew in it, I don't know. Sixteen years have passed but for the Bagbysthe story of the deaths of their only son and grandson resurfaces all the time. MORRISON: I never know what to think about these feelings that people get. It wasn't just to monitor the, extradition process. And so, on August 18, 2003, Shirley Jane Turner kills Zachary. Just from that, conversation, you could kind of get the sense that she didn't want Zachary, MORRISON: And for the Bagbys, Shirley issued what sounded somehow. MORRISON: Coming up, Andrew dead. He had been shot five times and the No. On the 5th, however, Turner appeared back in Latrobe. Mr. SIMPSON: Things people should know about Andrew, he was never late. Kate answered the phone, and she couldn't get off the phone for an hour. Ms. TURNER: (Audio recording) His parents don't even know, do they? But on Sunday, when he drove her to the airport, Andrew made it clear to Shirley it was over for good. ', Mr. SIMPSON: And I told him, I said, `You know, Andrew, when I break up with somebody and put them on a plane and send them 1300 miles away,' I said, `They knock on my front door, I'm going out the back door and I'm calling the police.' I didn't even know why I was going, other than Mom didn't want. This is how Kuenne represents his emotion at hearing the news that the woman who killed his friend had also killed his friends son. he was fussy at all. MORRISON: And then, in the spring of 1995, Andrew found someone, a Newfoundlander, also a doctor in training, a woman named Shirley Turner. After the shooting, according to Kate, Turner called her claiming she was trying to reach Andrew. Andrew, of all people, seemed to have no enemies at all. would now have to be something else, a visual letter to Andrew's baby. flying; Canadian flag flying; Supreme Court of Newfoundland building exterior; photos of Shirley; court document; university building; man talking to, reporters; court documents; Kate and David). Dear Zachary is now available on DVD! They should have been given custody of Zachary to begin with. Family and friends go to extraordinary lengths to honor a legacy of a young man whose trust led to tragedy. anything like that, would we take care of Zachary? Published by Statesville Record & Landmark on. The victims choices, preferences, actions, and relationships are either boiled down to a heap of clues and red herrings, or offered as a backdrop in a spirit of dutiful empathy before getting down to the business at hand. But the tributes Kuenne collected remain the spine of the movie, alternating throughout with exposition of the murder and its aftermath. But a few weeks later, she showed up in Pennsylvania, unexpected, for the wedding of one of his friends. And Kate kissed him and held him and kissed him some more. Gruesome details, abstruse discoveries, and personal secrets are examined with a seemingly cold and impartial eye in the light of the promise that, if seen rightly, they can yield up a picture of the truth. whose parents are charged with a violent crime. Through a complicated series of delayed hearings and granted bails, Turner remained free for many months while the decision regarding her extradition was in process. Parents Kate and David Bagby's story of identifying Andrew's body is devastating. Mr. BAGBY: We fret and worried and everything. Laudable ambition, difficult to achieve. March 18, 2008: MORRISON: Kurt and Andrew grew up together in Northern California, where the fledgling director gave Andrew starring roles in some of his earliest ventures. I said, `Do not meet her in private.' The International Film Music Critics also nominated his musical score for Best Documentary Score of 2008. don't have these meltdowns and emotional scenes. Dr. ANDREW BAGBY: (Wedding videotape) Best man is a little bit of a poor title for these things. Much of this DATELINE report incorporates material from Kurt's documentary, as well as something else: the childhood films he made as he taught himself his craft. doesn't take much to pull a trigger, does it? Oh, my God. And he'd be like(turns. HEATHER: I knew he'd been struggling with me moving on and dating other people. USA | Canada | UK, Original poster artwork by Evan B. Harris, Proceeds from this film benefit the Dr. Bagby Scholarship and the Dr. Andrew Bagby and son Zachary Bursary, Watch this short film to see the quest to complete Dear Zachary and amend Canadian bail law. The album includes "Andrew", the 8 minute concert work Kurt wrote and recorded in Andrew's memory in 2002. They held their breath. In Los Angeles - August 22-28 at the Arclight Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Blvd. Dear Zachary recently won the Audience Award at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, Alabama! Unidentified Woman #12: We won't forget their son. Because this is foreshadowing. Skewed imagery. MORRISON: You're in turmoil at that point. MORRISON: But Shirley would make it tough for Andrew to do that. And I don't know, I just lay on top of her and we, MORRISON: T.J. opened the door to police, too, and heard the. The documentary was originally released in 2008. This film wasn't made to win awards, or, for that matter, even be criticized. Information on who and where to write can be found by going to the "Support Bail Reform" page. But that didn't erase their unease, or a remarkable feeling, (Shirley and Zachary at birthday party; David), Mr. BAGBY: I considered killing her myself, seriously considered it. It's said there's nothing worse than the death of your child, and this film drives that point home harder and with the utmost care and precision."
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