[WIND IN TREES]
[LIGHT SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
My mom was someone I could go and talk to about anything.
It felt like something was ripped out of me.
[SERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIRENS OVER BACKGROUND MUSIC]
It's been one year since Frances Nelson
and Mamie Childs were victims in a double murder-homicide
in Albany, which stemmed from a domestic violence case.
[SIRENS, WOMAN SCREAMING, HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING]
My mom and my aunt were murdered in front of my children
at our home.
They were best friends.
My aunt lived here too.
How do you bounce back from being
in a place of so much despair?
I lost a lot of hope.
Life seemed unbearable.
Things just felt overwhelming.
I didn't want to get up in the mornings.
I didn't want to see sunlight.
My plan was to take a whole bunch of pills,
to commit suicide.
[THUNDER, RAIN, HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING]
Hurricane Michael is a monster storm that's gaining intensity.
Millions of people across six states
are under hurricane warnings and watches.
The storm is expected to blow over Georgia and the Carolinas
in the next few days.
[THUNDER, WIND]
[SERIOUS PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm standing here at the door watching the storm
and I'm saying, oh my God.
When am I going to get a break?
I just lost the most important people
that would have been right here with me.
I can't call my mom anymore when things got bad.
[THUNDER]
I was at the bottom.
[SIGHS SHAKILY]
I was mentally tired, emotionally tired.
It's like a battle that I just could not fight.
[OCEAN WAVES, BIRDS CHIRPING]
[HEAVY HUMMING MUSIC PLAYING]
Wow.
Ah man.
These poor folks.
People can go through so much sorrow and grief and so many
trials in their lives that sometimes they
just feel like they can't get back up again.
My husband and I, when we got to meet Cassa
and to hear her story, it was just unbelievable.
She had been hit by so many internal and personal storms
in her life that she was completely devastated.
The rapid response team.
They walk up in their blue shirts,
and the first thing that they do is hug me.
The warmth that they gave was amazing.
And I felt a sense of hope.
This was God, you know, sending these people to me to help me.
And all of us, we started talking, we started praying.
[SWELL OF UPLIFTING MUSIC]
And I said the prayer of salvation.
You're a part of the family of God,
and there's nothing like it.
And I have no other choice but to fall on my knees
and trust that God has a purpose for me.
[POWERFUL UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
If Billy Graham chaplains did not come,
I probably would have still been doing the same thing
that I was doing every day--
sitting in my truck crying, because I don't
want to come in this house.
The chaplains gave me that hope.
I feel like I met some friends, for real.
We love you.
We love you, too.
When you see someone that feels so hopeless
and has gone through so much, like Cassa has, and they
suddenly accept Christ into their heart
and you see the hope, and the joy,
and the tears in their face, you know that it has to be Jesus.
He is working in her heart.
He is working in this community.
And it can only be Him.
Now when I go to my mom and aunt's grave,
I don't feel pain.
Because I know one day when we meet again in heaven,
we will have peace and joy with God.
[CALMING PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]