Tabitha Buck was, more or less, just like any other teenager. She liked to date, she liked to "cruise" the "Loop", she liked to hang out and have fun. Tabitha grew up in Alaska and moved to Oregon with her mother in 1990. It was during the summer of 1991 that Tabitha would meet Lisa Michelle Lambert and Lawrence Yunkin through friends "cruising the Loop" in downtown Lancaster. 

In the beginning Bucks says, the relationship with Lambert & Yunkin was normal. They would do stuff on the weekends, go to the bowling alley, cruise, do the movies and the mall. "She didn't seem evil. I never saw them with alcohol or drugs." Buck contends that Lambert wasn't her "best" friend, they simply hung out together within a larger group of kids. 

Tabitha Buck will readily admit to her role in the murder of Laurie Show and acknowledge that she deserves punishment for that role but no more than Lisa Michelle Lambert. Justice Junction agrees completely. Although Tabitha Buck was a juvenile when charged with her role in the murder, she was sentenced as an adult. This in itself is not an arguable punishment, Justice Junction holds firmly to the belief that if a child, regardless of age, commits the crime of an adult, they should be punished as adults. 

     The arguable part of this equation is the punishment of Tabitha Buck versus the punishment of Lisa Michelle Lambert. Warm, caring, beautiful Buck sits in prison serving her life sentence without complaint while Lambert had ten months of freedom and a possible overturn of her conviction. 

We must ask ourselves how can this possibly be justice? The answer to that question is - it isn't. So then we must ask ourselves is there really anything at all even closely resembling "justice"? Or is it, like so many other things in our lives, simply a figment of our imaginations?