Epilogue
Royal Crowe received twenty years for the second-degree murder of his brother, Kingston.
It was the charge of conspiracy to commit murder as related to Paxton Kohl, however, that got him life without the possibility of parole.
Kalvin Kohl, and his young granddaughter, Eva Leigh Crowe were Royal’s only recorded visitors.
Forty raised the proof of Kennedy and Royal’s sacrifice while his daughter battled mental health issues for many years.
She became stable during her daughter’s high school years and was successfully able to be reunited.
As Kennedy often said throughout her recovery, some love stories aren’t made of rainbows and dreams. They’re pieced together by grit and the undeniable evidence of just how far we’ll go for those we cherish.
According to those who knew her; directly speaking about Royal Crowe often stirred up more emotions than Kennedy could process.
Visiting was understandably out of the question.
No one had ever done anything so selfless for her, and yet he was a party to events that had scarred and changed her life beyond comprehension.
He was a man who had contributed to her greatest loss, and yet he had provided her with the purest joy and love a person could ever hope to know; that of her precious daughter.
Eva was the living, breathing proof that something good was capable of coming from the swamp of betrayal that her mother once suffered.