White Children Tell Mother's Black Killer in a Letter that They "don't like evel and cruel people like you"

. . . In May . . . a second jury convicted Isaac "Ike" Washington of killing Stokes in the spring of 2008. The case was cold for more than three years before Washington, 36, and co-defendant Dwayne Pettaway were arrested and charged with the 24-year-old mother of two's death.

On Tuesday, Stokes' daughters were in court and in a letter addressed the man Blackwood said put a shotgun . . . Read more