Mother Raises Funds to Witness execution of The Man Who Raped and Killed her Daughter

A mother is battling to raise enough money to travel from New York to South Dakota to watch the execution of the man who raped and killed her nine-year-old daughter 22 years ago.

Tina Curl, 50, said she will only find justice when she watches Donald Moeller, 59, take his last breath from a 'front row seat' at his execution, scheduled for between October 28 and November 3.
'I have waited 22 long years for this,' Curl told ABC News. 'He watched her die and I am going to watch him die.'
Her daughter, Becky O'Connell, vanished on May 8, 1990 when she went to a convenience store a block from her home in Sioux Falls. Moeller grabbed her as she walked along the busy intersection.
The youngster's naked body was found in a ditch in Lincoln County, South Dakota the next morning; she had been raped and stabbed, and died after her throat was slit, according to court documents.
Moeller was found guilty in 1992 and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape charge and death by lethal injection for the horrifying murder.
Curl and her husband Dave - Becky's stepfather - had only lived in the state for five months before the murder, and following the tragedy, moved to Lake Luzerne, New York.
'After this she wasn't going to stay in that state,' Rhonda Springer, a longtime friend of Curl who is helping to raise money for the couple to travel to South Dakota, told ABC.
Donald Moeller has repeatedly tried to overturn his death penalty after it was set in 1992. In 1996, the South Dakota State Supreme Court agreed he did not get a fair trial.

But when he was retried a year later, the verdict remained the same - death.
Before the murder, he had a criminal history including sex abuse and the use of a knife against women and a 13-year-old boy. On the day he killed Becky, he had a meeting with his parole officer.
Curl had met Moeller once before the murder, when she and her daughter went to a yard sale. When police arrested him nine months after the killing, they found clippings about the case at his home.
Donations can be sent to the Hudson River Credit Union in Corinth, New York; MailOnline has requested further donation details from the Curls.
'The sooner they get him strapped down, the better I’ll feel,' Curl told the Argus Leader last month. 'I’ve been preparing for the day for 20 years. I’d been thinking he’d die from health problems.'
But the Curls still have a long way to go before they will witness the death of the man who snatched their daughter from them.
The couple will need to drive the 1,420 miles from their home to the execution as Tina is disabled; she said she has a bad heart and cannot fly.
And she said she will struggle to raise the money as receives just $721 a month for disability and can barely cover her bills, while her husband recently lost his job and is looking for more work.
They estimate the cost will be between $3,000 and $4,000 to travel and stay in a motel for the week that the killer is set to be executed. The warden will give 48 hours notice before the death.
So far they have raised just $890 from donations to a bank account and at a local fundraiser.
'I don't know if it's because of the death penalty or what,' she said. 'I see on different [internet] sites that people are putting me down because I am asking for help. I guess they think that's wrong.'
She said she is losing hope - but won't give up just yet.
'It means everything,' she said. 'I ain't only doing it for me. I am doing it for Becky.'