NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Time passes fast. Too fast for some of us.

It seems just a few days ago that I was in Mexico interviewing Perry March.

Actually, it was eight years ago, during one of my two Mexican interviews with Perry and his family.

There was Perry, his new wife, Perry's two children, Sammie and Tzipora, and their grandfather, Arthur March.

The then-eight-year-old Sammie and his six-year-old sister seemed to be having the time of their lives.

They ran around the front yard of Perry's Mexican-styled residence.

They jumped in and out of the swimming pool, and they hugged and kissed their father and step-mother.

The kids didn't seem to have a serious thought in the world.

It was like any other happy family.

They loved their life in Mexico.

Their father had skipped out of the U.S. in 1999, three years after his wife, Janet, disappeared.

Perry was always in denial about his artist-wife's disappearance.

He had looked me in the eye in Nashville, Chicago, and Ajijic, Mexico, with the same story of being innocent.

But he was never convincing to most anyone.

Both Perry and Arthur always voiced a hatred for Larry and Carolyn Levine, parents of Janet.

"If they don't get off our case," Arthur told me, "I'll get five or six of my Green Beret friends and take care of them."

Perry would never allow his children to visit the Levines.

I asked Sammie if he would like to spend some time with them.

"Only if my father and my grandparents can make up and be friends again," he answered.

Of course, that never happened.

Perry's two children are now living with their grandparents by court order.

Perry has been convicted of murdering his wife in 1996, and Arthur has a visit to federal court Friday to plead guilty to solicitation to have the Levines killed.

Perry is now serving a 56-year prison sentence, and may never get out alive.

The question is, when and if his children will want to visit their imprisoned father?

The poor kids.