Marie Casperson is the mother of 3 wonderful children. At the time of this incident their ages were Keith 21, Zachary 17 and Arianne 14. Her children have an extreme closeness, love and respect for each other and for their mother. Her children are on top of the world with their lives. Healthy, popular, smart, lots of friends, good self-esteem, active in sports, very well taken care of by their parents, cars, 4-wheeler, jobs, savings accounts, and life couldn’t be any better for the Casperson family.

Then one night Zachary went out with 8 of his friends just to have innocent fun driving 4x4 trucks in a pit. On this night there were about 30 kids riding cycles. A fight broke out between 24 and 17-year old kids and one boy got angry and ran the crowd with his vehicle. In one person’s rage, little 17-year old Zachary ran for his life, but Zachary wasn’t fast enough and he was physically crushed into the back of his friend’s pickup truck. As the criminal backed up his vehicle to flee, little Zac fell to the ground and this criminal ran over little Zachary’s body a second time without a bit of remorse. 3 weeks later Zac’s cousin Nick died in a motor cycle accident while riding with many kids from town in Zac’s memory. This criminal is also responsible for another death.

This book is about what this criminal did to a family that had it all. What he did to a community of children who adored Zachary and Nick. In a moment of anger this criminal shattered so many lives. The Casperson’s family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends all lost their innocence in just a few seconds. It tells of a “Mother’s Love” who fought for answers and went up against the justice system and “For the Love of Zachary” she did not rest until someone heard her cries. How a criminal, a murderer, had more rights than the Casperson family. How “For the Love of Zachary” a community of children helped in this fight. Some hated each other and did not get along, but “For the Love of Zachary” they put their differences aside and stood strong.

This book was written in Memory of Zachary. It includes the writings of Zachary’s mom in a journal since that horrible phone call on the night Zachary lost his life. It contains every experience, every heartache, every step that was taken to get through such a nightmare. It is a compelling story written to let people know how murder affects lives. It also shows the true meaning of the word “LOVE”! It tells of a “Mother’s Love” that searches through books and God to find the answers to heal her hurting heart and as she finds these answers she continues to share them with the children. Zachary’s love reaches out and shows them the way. Out of this love they all become very close and help each other heal.

After reading this book it will touch your life in some way. Maybe you lost a loved one to a murder or another reason and your life is still shattered. Maybe this book will help you heal your hurting heart. “For the Love of Zachary” his mother wants to help anyone who hurts from losing someone they love. Someone so precious that you want to die when they are ripped away from you! It is “For the Love of Zachary” that a “Mother’s Love” found answers and helped her family and a community of children fight to get their lives back and made them all the strongest people that they ever could be. Stronger, better people! And it is the Love of Zachary shared between them that took them on this journey and it is the Love of Zachary that brought them back. To show you how “Love Transcends All Time” and how they are all proof of that!

Please open your heart to this book. It will enlighten your mind, your heart and your soul. And maybe you will become a stronger, better person after you open your heart and let all the love and understandings of life