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Love, death and doubt at Angola
Leontine and Dean Verrett walk toward the bayou near their home in Jeanerette, La. They married two years after two Louisiana State Penitentiary inmates were convicted in the murder of her first husband. (Lori Waselchuk / For The Los Angeles Times)
Leontine Verrett with her daughter Maggie. Leontine Verrett struggled for years with questions about the way she was treated by prison officials after the death of her first husband, who was a prison guard. She came to the troubling realization that maybe the inmates convicted of killing him were innocent. (Lori Waselchuk / For The Los Angeles Times)
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