I went out for the sentencing, well, the DA actually bought our plane tickets in Motel

for the sentencing.

You go there and stand before these murder and bastards that killed your son and don't

think I could ever forgive him, I mean, they could rob him, there's no need to kill him.

This is Greg Settler.

He's talking about the moment the sentencing was handed down for the murder of Jeff, his

son.

I think I would have got a better sense of closure had they got a proper sentence.

The murderers got off of manslaughter instead of the first-degree murder.

It was pretty mandatory, there's no doubt.

I think at least the two main murders should have got life without growth.

We wouldn't really just, but you know, it is what it is.

I'm Sam Anderson and this is the Emerald Triangle, Chapter 6, a regular kid from Pleasant

Bill.

I have to say, I understand why Greg Settler feels like there wasn't justice for his son.

If Zach's telling the truth, Jeff was ambushed in his sleep, stabbed multiple times, and

then Michael Cain kneels over him and slowly puts a knife in his throat.

If that's not murder, what is?

So on a warm summer morning, I left Laytonville and drove more than 1,500 miles across the dusty

plains of West Texas to the town of Lubbock, the birthplace of Jeff Settler.

I pulled up to a nondescript looking building on a lonely industrial street, home to the

Settler family's contracting business.

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