Twenty-one years ago, Daisy Benson brought a gun to an argument. She
says she didn’t mean to shoot, and that may be true, but you bring a
gun to an argument, a lot can go wrong. Daisy was convicted of murder,
given 15 to life, and sent away to prison, hundreds of miles from
home, a small, poor town in Northern California. Seven years later,
her family saved up enough to visit. That’s when her daughter Robbin --
at the time, she was in her 20s -- hatched a plan that sounded so crazy,
when Daisy first told me about it, I thought, this can't be true. But
then I tracked Robbin down. And they both remember it starting exactly
the same way...
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