David Ferrara (thanks, Andy): Christopher Ryan Gaines said he often wakes up in fits, screaming.
Each minute of the 2004 murder has haunted him. He can't close his eyes, he said, without seeing Scotty Joe Weaver, who died at Gaines' hands in one of the most gruesome killings in Baldwin County history.
The look on Weaver's face. The sound of a nylon knot against flesh as a rope cracked the bones in the 18-year-old's throat. The raspy last words spoken as the life was choked out of him.
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