. >> a year after that arrest, harry bostic applied for a pardon from governor haley bar bore. is former irs investigator had high profile friends, write letters asking the governor to pardon bostic. he wrote that bostic's life fell in a destructive course after the tragic death of his teenage son in a house fire and a divorce from his wife. a federal prosecutor wrote, harry no longer drinks alcohol. and he can now be a positive factor in many lives. another friend wrote, bostic had turned his life around. the mississippi parole board in a 3-2 vote recommended bostic get a pardon. governor basher agreed. >> the power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented and rehabilitated and redeemed themselves. >> he was quite the artist. this is a gift she gave me. >> this is how she signed it. >> signed it with her hand print? >> yeah. >> reporter: but don't tell linda smith that harry bostic is rehabilitated. seven days after recommended for a pardon, smith's 18-year-old daughter charity was killed along this highway in a violent car crash, the driver of