Two portraits of Mark Allen Robertson, a convicted killer who is getting a new sentencing hearing after 18 years on death row, were sketched out for Dallas jurors on Monday.

Robertson, 41, was convicted in the 1989 robbery and murder of 81-year-old Edna Brau in her Preston Hollow home. He is also serving two life sentences for killing her grandson, Sean Hill, and a convenience store clerk, Jeffrey Saunders.

His attorney, Robbie McClung, told jurors they would hear not just the "bare facts. You're going to hear the whole story." That's the story of an abused and neglected boy with a drug problem who wound up in the juvenile justice system before committing murder at 19.

"You're going to listen to the cries of a child," McClung promised, as two spectators in the courtroom wiped away tears.

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