![]() In 1976, they were all in the back seat of a green Camaro when Jacobs was arrested with her boyfriend, an ex-con named Jesse Tafero, and his prison pal, Walter Rhodes. Eventually, they began living together, got their first drivers’ licenses and climbed mountains.īy then, Jacobs and her children had grown accustomed to overcoming obstacles. The crowd applauded Jacobs, then cheered non-stop when Tina was introduced. Tina accepted her mother’s invitation to attend an anti-death-penalty rally in Pittsburgh. The wounds began to heal a few months later. Jacobs found her at a high school in Maine, but Tina kept her distance. The reunion with her daughter didn’t go as smoothly. “Grandma, were you lost?” the girl asked when they met. “They live with embarrassment for so long: You say you didn’t (commit the murder), but everyone says you did.”įresh out of prison, Jacobs made her first non-collect telephone call in 16 years to son Eric, and then headed to North Carolina to see him, his wife and their 4-year-old daughter. “Getting back family is the hardest part,” says Jacobs, now 51, who teaches yoga and lives in Los Angeles. When she was freed in 1992, her son was married with a child of his own and her daughter was a 16-year-old stranger. Her daughter, 10 months old, was still nursing. When Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs went to prison for murder in 1976, her son was 9. ‘I had nothing … The world I left no longer existed’ ‘We’d rather have died than to stay in that place for something we didn’t do’
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