TULSA - This weekend marks a painful milestone for a Tulsa family.
After a decade she still can't bear to say the words.
Sandra Wilson hurts just as much Friday as she did on April 22, 2008.
"I miss his 8 o'clock phone calls every morning," she cried.
It happened in the middle of the night at her son 25-year-old Frederick Wilson's West Tulsa home.
"They tied him up, zip-tied him and shot him in the back of the head," recalled Frederick's Aunt Lucille Wilson.
The sheriff's office reported two masked men came in.
"We know there was no forced entry, that the suspects entered through the back door of the house," said Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Roebuck.
Deputies swarmed the neighborhood and attempted to speak with his girlfriend who they then thought was his wife.
"[She] lost her husband and feels that she escaped death as well," Captain John Bowman told reporters on the scene in 2008.
But, they never got anything out of her.
"We have attempted to locate her and speak with her as a witness, and she has not been cooperative," said Roebuck.
The sheriff's office believes the suspects knew Wilson, and his mother said that's why she believes there are people around who know more than they're saying.
"I had a call with him a few weeks before that, there were certain people he didn't trust," Frederick's aunt said.
The sheriff's office said he lived a "high-risk lifestyle," and think it may've contributed to the motive.
"Because there was narcotics trafficking involved there was known to be a large amount of cash in the house where Frederick lived," Roebuck said.
But, they never left with cash or anything material, just half of Sandra's heart.
"I go to the cemetery every holiday while they're walking the streets," cried his mother Sandra.
Now, his family is left with memories, photos, hope for justice and a poem.
"We always thought you'd see, you'd grow another year with us," his aunt read from the poem she wrote for him after his death.
"I have forgiven them for what they've done, but I'll never forget," she cried.
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