Text of the victim impact statement given Thursday by Robert Lidz, brother of Carol Neulander:

My sister, Carol, is remembered with simple words of kindness - she was loving, caring, warm, attentive, clever, talented, spirited, charitable. If you had heard her laugh, plotted with her as a child against the imagined tyrannies of our parents, heard her cry, you would know Carol. And yes, Carol's was a life too short.

Her sudden and senseless death deprived her of the fruits of life she was soon to have harvested. In the eight years past, she would have beamed with pride as her son became a doctor, married and presented her with her first grandchild. She would have been immersed in her daughter's wedding plans, enhanced their bond and shrieked in joy as a second granddaughter was born. She would be sharing today her younger son's engagement and be preparing to dance the Mazinka.

During those same eight years, Carol would have celebrated with our family four marriages and the birth of six more grandchildren. All of these are now memories fractured by Carol's murder.

And then there are the memories that will never be, can never be - more successes, new laughter, the gentle growing older together. These losses defy measurement.

On the contrary, Fred Neulander's life can be measured easily. It is totally defined by a single act of malignant arrogance. Were it in your province, Your Honor, I would ask you to sentence him to anonymity so that he could suffer his narcissism in silence.

Carol's murder stands alone in my life as an act beyond understanding. It has evolved into a living, changing, unpredictable set of emotions - a process never to be completed.

Carol's life is treasured, the impact of her murder immeasurable.