She can close her eyes and visualize it, even though Steve Sherer will probably never admit his crime. "I know that Jami was finally going to leave Steve that day," Judy says firmly. "She had made up her mind that nothing he could do would stop her. She told me she was on her way, and I believe she was. Steve would have pulled out that videotape and threatened to show it to me. He'd probably done that many times, but this time, I think Jami told him, 'I don't care anymore. Go ahead and show it to my mother. I'm still leaving you.' "That [videotape] was the one thing he could hold over her head to keep her in line. When he realized that Jami was really going and that he had no power left over her, the only way he had to stop her was to kill her. I think he choked her at the top of the stairs and she fell down them." Judy's voice choked a little as she spoke of that. "I wouldn't have liked to see that awful videotape, but it would not have changed how I felt about my daughter one bit. I would still have loved her.
