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To the Uknown Juror, I do not know your name and we have never met. I am writing anyway because what you did in that jury room matters. You sat through weeks of evidence about Cora, Dawson, and Callan—three children who were strangled in their own home. You then spent days in deliberations with eleven other people who wanted to walk away without holding their killer criminally responsible. You did not join them. You held the line. That took more courage than most people will ever have to show. The pressure you faced was obvious from the outside. Nine of the twelve jurors were women. The defense and much of the commentary around the case treated postpartum as an automatic get-out-of-accountability card. When the split became public, the lawyer for the woman who killed those children went after you personally and tried to have you removed. You still would not vote to acquit. That is not stubbornness. That is a man who looked at three dead children and refused to pretend the law required him to look away. You were one vote standing between a unanimous finding of “not criminally responsible” and a hung jury. You chose the hung jury. You chose not to cave. In a room that had already decided the outcome, you chose the children over the narrative. That is rare. It is also why I am proud of you. You are a hero to people who still believe that strangling a five-year-old, a three-year-old, and an eight-month-old baby is a crime that requires an answer, not an excuse. Thank you for standing there when it would have been easier to fold. Thank you for being a man that defends children.