On July 4 1990 eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot & killed her father who had been sexually & emotionally abusing her since she was eight. She suffered terrifying abuse at the hands of her unstable alcoholic father for ten years until the night she realised he was turning his attention towards her younger sister who was on the verge of becoming his next victim. Staceys trial went horribly wrong & she was found guilty of first-degree murder & sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of early release. But
- after spending as many years behind bars as she had outside of them
- her sentence was finally reviewed & she was freed. I Shot Daddy is Staceys heartrending memoir of her harrowing childhood & the pain & protective love of her sister that led her to that horrifying night. An incredibly moving & gripping story which tells of an extraordinary recovery of a woman determined to fight for her freedom.