User:Alewi020/Ellie Nesler

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Personal and Family Life (ADD IN SOMEWHERE- Could add even more to this section later)
Nesler was born to a coal miner and grew up in Jamestown. She was the oldest of her three sisters.

Nesler married Bill Nesler, the father of her two children. Bill was a coal miner and a crop-duster. She divorced him later on. Their two children were William and Rebecca, who lived with Ellie Nesler at the time of the shooting.

Additionally, Nesler had a criminal record before the shooting. When she was 18, Nesler was convicted for auto theft and served in a California Youth facility for several months.

Shooting of Driver (REARRANGE and REDUCE words -- Bold Will Be My Words)
((Nesler made headlines in 1993. On April 2, she killed Daniel Mark Driver, who had been accused of child molestation after his abuse of five boys (including her then-six-year-old son, William), in the courtroom of the Jamestown Justice Court.))

Driver, a 35-year-old Christian camp employee at the time, had previous convictions for child molestation .

((According to Jon Thurber of the Los Angeles Times, the finding that Nesler, when she killed Driver, had methamphetamines significantly influencing her body caused the "sympathetic portrait" of herself portrayed by her defense team to "erode". -- this is taken directly from my source, whoever did this))

She fired five shots into Driver's head, killing him instantly.

'''Nesler plead insanity and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to 10 years, but only served 4 .'''

Other Troubles With the Law (ADD IN)
In October 2001, Nesler was arrested for selling and possessing methamphetamine.

Nesler sold .06 grams, and later bought 10,000 tablets. She plead guilty to the charges in July 2002 and faced 6 years.

She was later released in June 2006. She was released from a woman's facility near Chowchilla, California.

Her Children After the Shooting (ADD IN)
According to an interview on The Oprah Show in 1999, this caused Nesler's children to be split up. Willy lived with his aunt and Rebecca went with her grandmother.

As Willy grew up, he ran into issues.

As a young teenager, Willy was sent to boot camps. Additionally, when Willy was 23-years-old, he attacked David Davis. In July 2004, he was charged with battery, serving less than one month in his 60 day sentence. He gets out of prison and stomps on Davis' head, killing him.

Willy was sentenced with first-degree murder, and he must serve 28 years to life in prison.

Unfortunately, not much about Rebecca is known. However, she did visit Willy in prison in October 2010.

Death and Legacy (ADD IN - Rearrange one sentence from earlier)
On December 26, 2008, Nesler died in the UC Davis Medical Center at age 56. She was in her final stages of breast cancer, while her son, Willy, was serving his prison term.

She left behind her two children and a lasting story, which is depicted in the film Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story .