Any smile is half-hearted.
There is little laughter. She finds it easier to cry. For almost 25 years, Carolyn Allen and her husband, Ed, have peered down a long, dark tunnel of despair - always looking, always hoping for some closure to their nightmare. They say that will come only with the resentencing of one of the convicted killers of their only daughter. But each flicker of hope has been doused by legal maneuvers and more delays in court proceedings.