Inside a Mom's 9-Year Quest for Justice After Her Daughter's Murder: 'It Was Love that Drove Me'
On March 25, 1988, Jacque MacDonald got the phone call that changed her life: Her 32-year-old daughter, Debi Whitlock, had been found with her throat slashed in her Modesto, Calif. home. Debi’s husband, who was returning home from a bachelor party when he discovered his wife’s body, was not home during the killing. But the couple’s 3-year-old daughter was, and the little girl slept through the attack. Nothing would ever be the same for MacDonald: “When Debi died, the life went out of me,” she told PEOPLE in 1997....