She fights in aftermath of sister’s death
(2 of 5) “The police knocked on my door to tell me that my sister had been murdered and that they were looking for my nephew. They didn’t say he had done it. I was devastated. All I knew was that my sister was dead and my nephew was missing. So to find out when they did locate him that he confessed, I can’t even describe the feelings. It’s like your entire world comes crashing down.
“It’s conflicting because while you don’t want to see your nephew locked up for the rest of his life, he took somebody that was so precious to you. I was very close to my nephew. I still love him. That will never change. But I miss my sister every day. And knowing her, she would tell me, ‘Don’t have my son locked up.’ She would never have wanted that for him. In fact, her last words to him, after he had stabbed her, were, ‘Baby, everything’s going to be OK.’ Even while she was dying, she kept trying to reassure him. That’s just the person she was.
“I lost a lot of family over the trial. Not everyone understood why I was fighting against my nephew. But they hadn’t talked to him or been around him when he started going downhill.
“As hard as it was, I would rather have fought alone for something I felt in my heart was right than to have caved under the pressure. That’s why I continued to fight for 4 1/2 years. I felt it was the right thing to do.”
— Betty Simons
Chance Moseley was 14 when he killed his mother, Nita Moseley, and her unborn child in 2015. He was tried as an adult in 2020, and received a life sentence for capital murder.
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