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Jessica Whittaker drives a bus for the Omaha Regional Transit Authority through the same city where she committed her crimes. She got there, she will tell you, by way of a phrase: “Can you Amy this?”

Tammy Zimmer knows what it means to have the deck stacked against you. Her mother had her and her twin sister at 16 and her father didn’t finish high school. Poverty wasn’t a circumstance in her childhood; it was the landscape.