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Immense Pride. Garland, now 46, was a Tennessee mountain boy who earned a college degree in education but considered himself inadequate to teach. So he came to Detroit to work in an auto factory, then found his career as a railroad-yard switching engineer. He owned a pleasant house, attended a local Baptist church regularly, joined the Detroit police emergency reserve. Of his four children, Sandy was his favorite, a source of immense pride...
Attractive, bright, a high school graduate at 16, Sandy was in her third semester of pre-med courses at Wayne State last spring. For her 17th birthday, Garland used all his savings to buy her a red Volkswagen; he permitted her to drive it only to church, school and her part-time job as a dentist's aide. Though not a hippie, she had experimented with pot and mescaline. Once she and a friend, Donna Sue Potts, were discovered high on mescaline. Garland forbade his daughter to see her friend, but later he relented. Still, Sandy found life...
...much to see Kabran as to escape from home that Sandy again moved in with Donna Sue Potts on Sunday, May 3. During the following week, occupants of Stonehead Manor testified, Garland, sometimes accompanied by his wife Martha, visited the building in search of his daughter. She eluded them. Garland questioned her neighbors, encountered infuriating evasions...
Shortly after 2 a.m. on May 8, Garland returned. The statement he subsequently gave to police, which has been presented at the trial, describes the tragedy in agonizing detail: "I knew my daughter was in there with Scott. I broke down the door to apartment 9 with my right shoulder. I was carrying a flashlight in my right hand. They were both nude. I pulled out my .38 revolver and struck Scott over the head with the gun as hard as I could. The weapon discharged, killing my daughter, who moaned and fell back. My wife screamed, 'You killed...
...belt and pulled out the Luger and walked into the other room and shone the flashlight at Tony on the couch, and I shot him, I believe, through the forehead. I believe he was having intercourse with my daughter also. They all ruined my daughter." Garland then tried to find Donna Sue in one of the other apartments. Finally Martha Garland got him outside. The couple drove immediately to the police station...