A family that had never been near a newsroom or a courtroom was suddenly trapped in the center of a national frenzy.

We didn't know till the next day that it was going to be front page Columbus Dispatch.

There was news cameras outside of our house.

They hustled in ways that at their age should have been reserved for daycare payments and a college fund, not defending a mother from a murder conviction.

We did a car wash to raise legal funds, and we had flyers printed out, and people were kind of berating us at those events.

Like, "No, I would not support a murderer," and things like that.