Joan Porco's Shocking Past: A Deep Dive

Joan porco looks back at the courthouse as she quickly left the courtroom after her son christopher porco's sentencing to 50 years to life at the albany county courthouse in albany, tuesday. The attack on joan had been devastatingher skull fractured, her left eye destroyed. But, against all odds, she was alive. Even more astonishing was what she managed to do. The victims as a young couple:

Heres a recap of the forensic files episode plus some additional facts about the porco case drawn from crime library, 48 hours, and albanys times union newspaper. Inside the couples bedroom, a bloodied ax sat upon the floor. There were no fingerprints on the weapon and no one was in the home when they arrived. Someone had killed peter porco and had very nearly killed his wife, now it was up to the officers to find out who. First, though, they needed to get joan to a hospital. Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty.