Woman seeks justice in mother’s killing
Alison Galvani, now a Yale professor who lives in Connecticut with her husband and her three children, is trying to persuade San Francisco prosecutors to charge her father in the 1982 killing of her mother. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Alison Galvani has a collection of photographs taken of her with her mother Nancy. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
Alison Galvani keeps a doll her mother gave her when she was a child. In her daughter’s bedroom, a quilt her mother made hangs on the wall. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
“My mother’s vindication is that she has a daughter who loved her enough to try as hard as I did to get justice,” Alison Galvani says. “My father lost that love, and that is his punishment.” (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)