Zacharey Diederichs

My name is zacharey diederichs I’m 36 years old and currently locked up in the Michigan department of corrections. I’m currently serving 50 years for 2 counts of second degree murders and felony firearm. I know when People see this they think I’m a monster or I deserve to be locked up I have been told that I deserve the capital punishment and that I should never see the outside of prison gates.

I understand how people in the community and society would feel this way and I would have to agree in many ways because my actions in life have consequences and my actions in life have hurt people and my family. As a man I will never minimize my actions or place blame on anyone or anything every choice I have made right or wrong has been by my own actions me myself and I and I’m the only one to blame for how I chosen to live my life and the path I went on.

so as I unfold my story I what the community and society and world to know that I do have a good and positive side of my life that gets overlooked because my bad past life. Right now I’m currently waiting to take my training in a program called ppca prisoner palliative care aid,which he help prisoners with if they can’t feed themselves we help with that if they need some one to sit and talk with we are there we help Cancer patient’s and inmates who can not walk or help themselves or when they go on vigil we sit with them in shifts to make them as comfortable as they can be. I also study Islam as a Sunni Muslim with the Tayba foundation which helps sends inmates books and positive materials to grow as a Muslim and in life and has been one of the best decisions I have ever done.

I want everybody who reads this and will hopefully be on this journey with me as I open up from the time I was 17 I have been on a path of multiple trial cases and criminal behavior. How I have helped my community and done positive things in my life. I want people to know the good and bad and I want young people to hopefully see this and understand that when we chose the street life and learn not to correct are life we will be someplace that will take everything from you your life your family your friends your freedom.

I want my story to be a bright light in life I have been such a dark cloud in this world that I want my story to help at least one person. I’m not looking for sympathy or praise or to find someone the only thing I want to do now is to have a voice for something honest and truthful and to let who ever reads this to spread the good around. so until next time I will be talking about where I took my life on a down spiral with my first two trials.