Remembering Calove Sackman - murder victim
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In the middle of an ice storm on February 5, 2019, CaLove Sackman, mother of four was lured from her home and murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. He convinced her to go for a ride with him with the promise of possibly giving her $1,000. According to his own words, minutes after being in the car with him she became frightened and tried to jump out of the moving vehicle to escape him. He pulled her back into the vehicle and stabbed her. She managed to break free from him and get out of the car and crawl away onto the sidewalk near the mall parking lot in her hometown of Keokuk, Iowa. He then drove into the parking lot, and drove into her with his car. He then stabbed her again. He stabbed her at least eight times according to medical reports. He then left her for dead, lying on an ice covered sidewalk. She was left there, cold and alone for nearly half an hour before someone found her. She held on for as long as she could and was able to identify her murderer to the 911 operator.
CaLove leaves behind four beautiful children who were her pride and joy. CaLove once told me that she sometimes wished that she had made different choices in life, but wouldn’t change things if she could as those changes in choices may mean she wouldn’t have her children and “they are the best things that have ever happened to me.”
CaLove was a dearly loved member of our family. We are a close family and gather together for an annual family reunion. CaLove was ALWAYS there. Family was everything to her. If you wanted to find CaLove at a gathering, all you had to do was look for the babies. She loved everyone’s babies!
She was hardworking and did her best to provide for her children and herself. She was crafty and delighted in making things for her children and others.
She had a smile lit up the room.
Now, we never get to see that smile again. We never get to hear her laugh again. Her life was cut senselessly short because her murderer was angry that he could no longer control her and that she had chosen safety for herself and her children. He wasn’t “through with her yet.” So, he violently ended her life, robbing her children of the joy and comfort of their loving mother. He stole their innocence and the joy that should be in their childhoods. He deprived her of her life. A life where she would have watched her children grow and celebrated their joys and comforted them in their sorrows. She will not be here to watch them graduate, get married, or even hold her own grandchildren.
He was found guilty of first degree murder today and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. We are glad that he has received Iowa’s maximum sentence for his crime. But, he has taken so much and we want to turn the focus from him to her. We want to give her a memorial stone so her children and someday, grandchildren, have a place to remember her and the joy she brought to us.
Please consider making a donation. Even a small donation such as $5 would help and be appreciated.
A separate bank account is being set up so these funds can be used to purchase her headstone. In the event that there is money left after purchasing her headstone, that money will be used to help by Christmas presents for her children this year.
http://www.mississippivalleypublishing.com/daily_gate/mccain-guilty-of-first-degree-murder/article_6b03c5eb-de30-5809-a6bf-440d0e2035b3.html
CaLove leaves behind four beautiful children who were her pride and joy. CaLove once told me that she sometimes wished that she had made different choices in life, but wouldn’t change things if she could as those changes in choices may mean she wouldn’t have her children and “they are the best things that have ever happened to me.”
CaLove was a dearly loved member of our family. We are a close family and gather together for an annual family reunion. CaLove was ALWAYS there. Family was everything to her. If you wanted to find CaLove at a gathering, all you had to do was look for the babies. She loved everyone’s babies!
She was hardworking and did her best to provide for her children and herself. She was crafty and delighted in making things for her children and others.
She had a smile lit up the room.
Now, we never get to see that smile again. We never get to hear her laugh again. Her life was cut senselessly short because her murderer was angry that he could no longer control her and that she had chosen safety for herself and her children. He wasn’t “through with her yet.” So, he violently ended her life, robbing her children of the joy and comfort of their loving mother. He stole their innocence and the joy that should be in their childhoods. He deprived her of her life. A life where she would have watched her children grow and celebrated their joys and comforted them in their sorrows. She will not be here to watch them graduate, get married, or even hold her own grandchildren.
He was found guilty of first degree murder today and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. We are glad that he has received Iowa’s maximum sentence for his crime. But, he has taken so much and we want to turn the focus from him to her. We want to give her a memorial stone so her children and someday, grandchildren, have a place to remember her and the joy she brought to us.
Please consider making a donation. Even a small donation such as $5 would help and be appreciated.
A separate bank account is being set up so these funds can be used to purchase her headstone. In the event that there is money left after purchasing her headstone, that money will be used to help by Christmas presents for her children this year.
http://www.mississippivalleypublishing.com/daily_gate/mccain-guilty-of-first-degree-murder/article_6b03c5eb-de30-5809-a6bf-440d0e2035b3.html
Organizer
Amy Kruse
Organizer
Keokuk, IA
