Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend, Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John s, Newfoundland, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew s child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew s oldest friend began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he d never meet. But when Shirley was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the U.S., the film s focus shifted to Zachary s grandparents, David and Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their only son. What happened next, no one could have foreseen...