BECKY MARSHALL

Basic Info

• Former foster/adoptive parent of SAMUEL BALL
• Convicted of cheque fraud and reckless abandonment after returning SAMUEL BALL to the state
• Serving time at GARRETT COUNTY PRISON
• Suffers from a prominent puncture scar on her neck from an icepick attack

Session 6 – Prison Interview

BECKY MARSHALL: "we tried everything for that boy, we really did. the doctor said it was malnutrition. We couldn't talk to him... He was never violent, not until… not until he tried to stab ANNE MCLEOD."

She describes SAMUEL BALL calmly taking a kitchen knife into ANNE MCLEOD's room, leading to the family's collapse and ANNE MCLEOD cutting off contact. Later, after losing custody, BECKY MARSHALL tracks SAMUEL BALL to ST LAWRENCE CHURCH in MIAMI, where he smiles and stabs her eight times with an icepick—the first time she ever saw him smile.

She notes repeated crow visitations to SAMUEL BALL's bedroom windowsill and resigns herself to "kite checks again" after release because "nobody'll hire me."