The remainder of the information covered the trial and the state’s inability to produce sufficient evidence that it had been anything other than an accident. The jury delivered a not guilty verdict. Her husband, Clement, had divorced her soon afterwards and moved to Virginia with one of their twin sons.
Whew! Quite a story. I closed Wanda’s file and moved on to the specifics of her brother Nelson’s charges, which were even more disturbing. A long-haul truck driver, he had been accused of picking up and holding a teenage girl hostage at his ranch. Krystal Lampton, age 16, told authorities Trotter had befriended her and promised to drive her to a relative’s home, but instead, had taken her to the Double G Ranch where he allegedly confined her with zip ties and repeatedly assaulted h
