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Article Excerpt
Byline: Erin Holmes Daily Herald Staff Writer
Cindy McNamara tosses a load of laundry into the wash. Her husband, Bob, takes the car in for a wash and runs to pick up the dog from a neighbor's house.
Their son phones from college.
It's the day after a downstate Coles County jury sentenced their daughter's killer to death.
With fewer tears now clouding their eyes and the heavy burden of uncertainty lifted, they're again getting back to life as they now know it: almost normal, almost happy, almost complete.
With something missing.
"The long, hard road is over for them, but it isn't for us," Cindy McNamara says of the jurors, prosecutors and others who played key roles in the case, all of whom, she says, did their jobs well. "We still have the rest of our lives to deal with the loss of Shannon. We'll miss Shannon for the rest of our lives, until we see her again."
Cindy McNamara has shed the dress clothes she wore for most of the long trial, now wearing more uplifting attire: a sweatshirt embroidered with the phrase "I Believe in Angels."
"We know she's with us," she says, sitting with her husband in their Rolling Meadows living room.
The couple has spent the 625 days since June 12, 2001, trying to come to terms...
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