David Haynes Quotations

She's nervous about the beginning of a trial, like anyone does who's going on trial for her life.

She clearly did not know her action was wrong and that's unfortunate. We will try this again.

My expectation is that she'll be in Vernon for years.

My expectation is she will be in the hospital for many years.

On Nov. 22...the last dike broke and madness flooded in. What happened there was unthinkable and unspeakable.

I wish they would release a little information, ... They certainly haven't said there's a crazy killer on the loose.

My own expectation is that she will remain at the hospital for many, many years.

I think so, but there is no way to prove it for sure. Looking back on it now, it would have been great if we could have had this for the trial.

We have a just verdict in a just case, but yes, it is bittersweet. She wanted to be sent to the state hospital in Vernon. She feels it is her best chance to get better.

We believe that we have strong evidence to indicate that she was insane at the time of the offense.

We are still thinking about it. It has advantage and disadvantages if you give up your right to a jury trial.

You see all kinds of remains, I'm sure you look for deaths from victims of child abuse. Do you see an injury or pattern.

There were a number of people who could have and should have recognized she was ill and done more to help her, including her church. I'm not going to war with her church, but they should have recognized she had serious mental illness.

This is the verdict we've been working for, for 16 months. We believe justice was done in this case.

They're definitely scared and keeping their guns loaded. If you live in a big city, you expect a shooting like this. Not out here.

It's not unusual to catch 30- and 40-pound blue cats and quite often you'll catch them up to 70 to 80 pounds. The biggest one (Haynes' father-in-law) ever caught was 86 pounds.

The autopsy photos...are going to be horrendous pictures.

They have to be segregated from society to protect society, and get the best kind of treatment we can give them. And we should house them in a way that is humane, recognizing that what they did is different from those who killed for money or out of anger or whatever.

These things happen. This is a pretty clear case, it seems to me.