Weekly Reading, October 29th, 2008

I read an article on startribune.com called Matthews sentenced to life for former girlfriend's murder. It explained how in December of 2007, Zachery Matthews brutally killed his girlfriend Kristine Larson. Matthews killed her in their apartment right in front of their two year old son. He then shoved her in the trunk of his car and attempted to burn the car and the body. He was convicted of first degree murder, plus two murder accounts and interference with a body. While Kristine's family and friends went up to testify Matthews couldn't look up and even started to plug his ears. Their relationship was abusive right from the start but Larson wanted to try to lure Matthews away from his gang and make him a better person. In the end he received a life sentence and their child was put in the care of family. This is an extremely sad story and i feel badly for their child who will never know who his real parents were.