More than six years after hospice director Monica Melissa Patterson murdered 96-year-old WWII vet Marty Knell inside his north McAllen home in late January 2015, suffocating him with a plastic garbage bag while her accomplice held him down in a kitchen chair, the killer’s appellate train has finally run out of track. Her final destination has been reached: life in state prison without the possibility of parole. Patterson, now 53, has never admitted her guilt, but her accomplice, Angel Mario Garza, who later pled guilty to murder after confessing to it, did. He said that Patterson had promised him some proceeds ...