8/10
Skeptical
12 September 2022
Wow. Good documentary work. Kudos to the director. I'm a Christian and am all onboard with forgiveness under even the toughest situations. As an opponent to the death penalty, I'm glad Dale Wayne Sigler was spared execution, but after hearing his story, based on his lack of remorse, I'm not convinced he should have been released from prison or that he appreciates the gravity of what he did in murdering John Zeltner. He struck me as one of the many who was imprisoned and found God. I don't doubt prison conversions, as all who become Christians had a past. What I find difficult to reconcile is what I perceived as Sigler having an attitude of I've overcome and am fully forgiven regardless of who might think differently, yet he has unfinished business with John's family (I get that he can't contact them). I also see him as being (or attempting to be) highly manipulative, particularly with Carole Whitworth and her church members. What just blew me away was this whole new story about why he allegedly killed John. The whole story reeks of gaslighting in a feeble attempt to mitigate his reasoning for murdering a man in cold blood, particularly when if it had a scintilla of truth, surely he would have used it at trial. It's pretty easy, convenient, irrefutable and disgusting to concoct a story which negatively portrays a murder victim as a villain when even Sigler's own friend remarked that he took them around gay men. I believe that he had a sexual relationship with John. Maybe Sigler can't forgive himself because he can't tell himself the truth. I pray that he'll do better, get some therapy, tell the truth and actually be able to forgive himself, let God really make something positive of his life, and somehow, someday make amends to John's family. We all have work that we need to do. That is his.
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