Linda Sledge, the widow of police officer Cecil Sledge, is speaking out against the potential parole of his murderer, Salvatore 'Crazy Sal' Desarno. Nearly 50 years after Sledge was killed during a patrol in Brooklyn, Linda describes the ongoing pain of losing her husband. She expresses that the trauma of his murder has not diminished over time and makes her 12th visit to the parole board to prevent Desarno's release, reflecting on the irrevocable impact of the crime on her life and on the families of law enforcement officers.
Time doesn't change anything. Losing him was every police officer's wife's worst nightmare. We're never going to get parole from the horror of what this man did to us.
A kiss goodbye, 'See you later' and he walked out the door and I never saw him again. That day changed my life forever.
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