Police state that Hicks was also hit in the leg and that Reardon called her sister after the attack to to say that she “couldn’t believe that she missed and wouldn’t ever get a chance to do it again.”
Reardon is the author of various novels including “The Mercy Killers” and “Blameless.” In Mercy Killer, she tellingly writes the line “It’s hard to think how different their lives would have been if it weren’t for the mess they got themselves into . . .”
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