One by one by one, three caskets were carried down the centre aisle of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Pinehurst, North Carolina, for a final goodbye that the family of Shan’ann Watts and her daughters – Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3 – could hardly bear.
Stoic in the front pew for the Sept. 1 funeral mass, Shan’ann’s parents, Sandra and Frank Rzucek, and her brother Frankie, entrusted Father John Forbes to read their emotional messages to the children who had been murdered in their Frederick, Colorado, home almost three weeks earlier – along with Shan’ann’s unborn son, Nico. “You will always be Daddy’s little girl,” Frank wrote. “Bella and Celeste and Nico, you will always be Pop-Pop’s little girls and precious grandson.” Sandra’s letter asked God’s blessing on all who…
