MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - Holding a picture of her husband David, Pam Radcliffe stood in front of Issac Zamora, the man who murdered David.
"You mutilated him ... look at him!” she said.
Fueled by mental illness, say attorneys, Zamora went on a rampage last September, hunting down and killing what he thought were demons in his quiet Alger neighborhood.
"Every day I walk outside in my yard or look in the mirror at my scars, it takes my breath away," said Fred Binschus.
Zamora shot Fred Binschus and then went after his wife of 26 years, Julie.
"After shooting her several times and then you continued to hunt her down and execute her, you're a coward," said Binschus.
As others got up to speak, Zamora sat quietly.
"Issac Zamora, you are a waste of skin, a waste of oxygen," said Nick Lange, the son of victim LeRoy Lange.
The prosecutor , who spoke for some of the families, talked of a 12-year old girl whose dad was among the victims and her threats of suicide, anger, panic attacks.
"And messages written on her bedroom window that reads, 'Daddy come save me,'" said the prosecutor, reading a statement from JoAnn Gillum, the mother of one of the victims.
There were demons in that neighborhood, says Zamora's mother Dennise, all of them trapped inside her son's head. He was mentally ill, but the law wouldn't allow her to force him into treatment.
"Until the real Issac was unrecognizable and every decision was contaminated my mental illness, logic escaped him," she said.
Delusion took over and one of worst chapters in Skagit County history was written.
"On behalf my family we're so sorry for your grief," said Dennise Zamora.
Isaac Zamora will first undergo treatment at Western State Hospital. If his mental illness improves, he'll serve the remainder of his life sentence in prison.
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