CAN A WOMAN END 25 YEARS OF PAIN BY FORGIVING HER SISTER'S KILLER?

"48 HOURS" INVESTIGATES IN "ROAD TO REDEMPTION"

Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015

For more than two decades, Jeanne Bishop struggled to understand why her sister and brother-in-law were murdered by an intruder who shot both of them in their suburban Chicago home in 1990. But can she heal by meeting face-to-face with the shooter to get those answers - and trying to forgive him along the way?

Nancy and Richard Langert were found dead on Palm Sunday by Nancy's father, who went to check on the couple. They were found in the basement of their Winnetka, Ill., home. There was money strewn nearby as if they offered it for their lives. Nancy, using her own blood, drew a heart and a U. Their killer was identified months later as David Biro, a local high school student, who bragged to a friend he did it.

Maureen Maher and 48 HOURS investigate the murder and Bishop's quest to find closure by forgiving the Langerts' killer in "Road to Redemption" to be broadcast Saturday, Nov. 28 (10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

"Who could have looked in Nancy's eyes, the beautiful light shining there, and pulled the trigger?" asks Nancy's sister, Jeanne Bishop.

"Road to Redemption" is a story of love, loss and what happens to a family ripped apart by tragedy, as well as the struggle for survivors to move on after losing loved ones to a killer.

In late 1991, David Biro, who was 16 years old at the time of the murders, was tried as an adult and convicted of murder. He was sentenced to two mandatory life terms for the murders of Nancy and Richard Langert, and the judge gave him a discretionary life sentence for the death of their unborn child.

For many families, that's when the healing begins. Not for Jeanne Bishop. She couldn't move on, because she needed to know what motivated Biro to kill her sister and husband. Bishop also says it is important to forgive and thus lift the crushing burden victims often live with following such crimes.

"It took 23 years to get the answer of why," Bishop tells 48 HOURS.

Bishop's quest to get closure and to forgive took her to Biro, who is housed at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Ill., a two-hour drive from her home.

"I knew when I was going there to meet him for the first time, to shake his hand, that I was taking the hand that held that gun," Bishop tells 48 HOURS, "the one that pulled the trigger and fired and ended her life."

What happened next surprised everyone.

Maher and 48 HOURS report on the murders and the family's attempts to move on through interviews with Bishop, investigators and other family members. "Road to Redemption" is produced by Chris O'Connell, Doug Longhini and Lauren Clark. Anthony Batson is the senior broadcast producer. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

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