In my 11 years in this business, I’ve covered cop killers, mass murderers, and other heinous individuals of all sorts, but I can honestly write that Doug Jaccard is one of the most disturbing of them all.

  Almost every family member of the victim in this case, Joe Bane, is on some form of medication or seeing a psychiatrist in order to deal with the absolute terror Jaccard unleashed on them on December 16, 2008.

  Bane’s wife Sharon is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

  She told the judge she now panics every time she hears a police siren, a smoke alarm, or anything that remotely sounds like a gun shot—- all take her straight back to that day when she looked in her dead husband’s eyes and later told her son to run out the front door of the family home, thinking at the time she would trade her life for his.

  Her story of what she did during the initial moments of the attack is one of the bravest I’ve ever come across.

  She immediately kept her head, mapped out a plan for survival, and broke her foot jumping from a window and later a retaining wall after Jaccard literally set off a bomb inside her home.

  If she had panicked, her and her son would likely be dead.

  Sharon Bane had two things on her mind—- saving her son, and getting her father, Jerry Covey, to safety (Jaccard shot Covey through the arm as he rushed to save her.  Investigators believe Jaccard meant to kill him.  Luckily he missed).

  I heard from one of the investigators who talked to Jaccard a little while after his capture.

  He told me he asked Doug if he had any remorse at all after the attack—- and Doug told him he had none.

  In Doug Jaccard’s warped, evil mind—- the Banes property was his.

  He wanted the area all to himself so the Banes and Coveys (Joe Bane’s in-laws) had to go.

  There are two stories I’ve covered since I’ve been in Southwest Virginia that have made me really angry.

  The first was Seung-Hui Cho.

  The second was Doug Jaccard.

  I hope and pray all of the Banes recover as much as they can after this.

  I hope they laugh and play, go on vacations to the beach, love each other to the fullest extent.

  Because that’s what they still have—- love.

  All Jaccard may get is a cell mate.

  None of Jaccard’s family was there today so he’ll likely die alone.