Alene and George Jenkins were good people who loved their children. They were the type of parents who were ready to exhaust all avenues to help their kids in anyway they knew how. Unfortunately the help they offered was not appreciated and in February of 1996 an unthinkable act committed by their own son would change the lives of so many while devastating two communities in the process.
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