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It's a small seaside town just about at the end of Cape Cod.

And in the winter time, it's a really quiet place.

The people that live here, you're around us. Everyone pretty much knows one another.

I never want to live anywhere else. It's just a beautiful place to hang out unless something

really awful happens. Police are trying to solve the first murder in a small Cape Cod town in

more than 30 years. The victim, a local writer named Crystal Worthington, was found inside this house

in Truro on Sunday. Crystal Worthington was found stabbed once through the left chest,

missing the heart, piercing the lung, and the knife made an exit wound in her back and went

into the kitchen floor below her. Worthington's two-year-old daughter was also at the house on Sunday

and witnessed the attack, but she was not hurt. The details that we heard about apparently A of

attempting to clean her mother's body and finding a child's broom with blood on it and things

like that, that was really, really hard to take. The horror that came into this quiet house in

the winter time at the end of the world had just blew up these little wonderful lives.

My name is Eric Williams. I'm a reporter with the Cape Cod Times and I've covered this case

from the beginning. I'd say she had a very easy smile. She had a wide-eyed

wonderment about the world. She was a mom. She was a great mom. Her whole being lit up just

by being with her daughter Ava. She was a flirt and I could tell that there was an attraction.

I'm Tony Jacket. I had an affair with Crystal Worthington and we had a child together, Ava Worthington.

It wasn't solved right away. It is a murder mystery that continues to haunt Cape Cod.

I think people were spooked. Who is this person that did it? Where are they? I mean, are they

local? People around here are getting very anxious. And time went on and sort of rotating cast of

potential suspects were tried it out. We got Tony Jacket, the father of Ava. It's disturbing

to be murderous suspect. Tony son-in-law Keith Amato was a person whose name came up.

The guy who found the body Tim Arnold. Crystal was an easy person to love and sometimes a

difficult person to be around. I think there was the feeling like we're never going to know whether

this was your next door neighbor. That arrest in the murder of Crystal Worthington.

I mean, that was a shock. I was out of the blue. They arrested a guy. I mean, could you believe it?

This was a great mystery.

How could a single mom be executed in her kitchen in January in Cape Cod?

Yeah, I love it now in a time because it is quiet and I like the cold weather.

In the winter time Cape Cod can feel like the end of the world. It's a real challenge being out of

the water, mentally and physically, really a real independent way of life. It's the only world

fishing warden Tony Jacket ever really has known. I feel fortunate and blessed today. I was born

to race here. Tony is like, he's like a nature boy. And that, according to reporter Eric Williams,

is pretty much how everybody in the town of Truro saw him. I need to see. He's a great guy,

a gregarious smart, you know, really a pleasant fellow, you know, who likes the ladies, you know.

In 1997, a new lady came to town, a glamorous former fashion writer from New York.

She had a bungalow right next to the harbor master's shack. And this is the harbor master's shack.

This pink one, that was hers. She's sitting on the porch and I'm right there.

And Jacket married with six kids, nonetheless went for her hookline and sinker.

She was someone very different from the people that I know. She was some mysterious

enigmatic, somewhat of a loner. Her name was Christa Worthington.

A 40-year-old vassard grad, she lived what seemed a life in the fast lane.

Covering the runways of New York, London and Paris for top fashion magazines.

Scoring an interview with fashion superstar Eve Salarong when she was just 26.

That was her building when she moved back from Europe.

But Steve Radlauer, who dated Christa for two years in New York, says she never felt part of the

glamorous world she covered. I think she was feeling a little burned out after her European

women's wear years. Her prominent New England family owned a slew of properties in Turo.

owned by John Worthington Sr. including this one where she moved a few months later.

It seemed like the perfect retreat and the perfect place to have a child.

She had this having a baby thing in mind and I think she felt that this would be a good place

to do that. The complication was that she was not married, didn't have a boyfriend.

She was, I think, intrigued with the local color. Local color, including you.

Yeah, I could tell that there was there was an attraction.

You know, ultimately I ended up over a house. I have a cup of tea and I want to see

leads to another and for about a year off and on they had an affair.

I had become a slave to my ego and for the beautiful writer who desperately wanted a child

and the local fisherman who already had six, one thing did lead to another.

So she comes to you at some point and says, I'm pregnant.

Right. This is a surprise. This is a total surprise.

A surprise he didn't share with his wife of 26 years. Even when Christa gave birth to a daughter,

Eva, in May of 1999. The day she got pregnant, she was ecstatic.

I was dumbfounded. Friends and sisters, Christa had been told she couldn't have a baby,

but Jacket always has felt she's setting up. I had to explain this.

I'm like, all of a sudden, I realize that I'm in deep...

In fact, she had gone on the Lisa show the year before to talk about women who choose to be

single parents. Trying to figure out how to be the best parent to your child given that there

is no father. She was very real. She was exactly who she was.

Eva became the center of Christa's universe, says Linda Schlechter, who baby sat a few times

a week. A very devoted mother and she would always have Eva on her lap and they would always

be playing the laughing. Now I'm just still in a lot of disbelief about what's happened.

It seems so unreal. Unreal indeed. I walked into the newsroom here on Cape Cod,

and we had just gotten word from the police that they had been a murder.

The first homicide in Truro in 30 years sent reporter Eric Williams into high gear.

Finding sources, working the phones. It was Sunday, January 6, 2002.

Surprisingly, you know, I knew the guy who found the body and next thing I'm calling him and

talking to him about it. He was calling Tim Arnold, another former boyfriend of Christa's,

who lived just through the woods from her house. Arnold's story was that he had simply dropped

by the house at 4.30 that afternoon to return a flashlight and instead got the shock of his life.

He sees Christa lying on the floor in a sort of a kitchen hallway area and he sees Eva

near her mother's body. Arnold later told police little Eva was trying to nurse.

He said he scooped her up and ran outside. He called 911.

I'm sure she did. Christa Worthington was dead, lying in a hallway off the kitchen.

She was bruised up. It looked like there had been some kind of altercation that she had been in.

She was half naked and stabbed once through the left lung.

The blade went through the body and into the kitchen floor beneath her body.

The front door was smashed. There were drag marks on the ground outside and several personal

items scattered in the drive. Some socks were found outside. Maybe a beret, a pair of reading glasses.

The disarray continued inside. Shocked EMTs carelessly grabbed a blanket from the house to cover Christa's

body. Soon, all of Truro knew what had happened. We could have just a phone call. The Christa

got murdered. What was your reaction when you got this phone call? Just disbelief. I mean, like why

it seemed so senseless? With all the elements of a classic mystery, sensational reports of the

murder on Cape Cod topped the news around the country. It was a murder that rocked the world

of high fashion. Leaving Christa's nervous neighbors with no reason to suspect that it would take

police literally years to solve this crime. Not that they didn't have plenty of suspects.

It became some kind of awful parlor game, you know, in living rooms on the outer Cape and maybe

even beyond as you'd sit around and once again go through it and try to figure out, could it have

been Tim? Could it have been Tony? How did it go down? By the spring of 2005, towns people were

starting to think police never would figure out who killed Christa Worthington. This was just

a random awfulness that just came screaming out of the woods of Truro and festered for three years.

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Krista Worthington's Savage Murder in January of 2002 left

two-year-old Ava without a mother. And it left the town's people of Truro, edgy, nervous,

and silently wondering if the killer might be one of them. Who else would come down to the end

of the world in January and do this? You think it's got to be someone who is here because no one

comes here in January. The best potential lead to the murderer's identity? DNA found on Krista's body.

It's DNA of an unknown male that's consistent with a someone having had sexual relations with

the victim and it's that DNA that we seek to match.

So, says District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, investigators first zeroed in on her immediate circle,

especially past boyfriends. You look at the people who are in the immediate orbit of the

victim's life. While they waited for the crime lab to find a DNA match, they took a hard look.

First, there was the neighbor and former boyfriend, Tim Arnold. Not only had he found the body,

but his semen would turn up on the blanket thrown over Krista. Then again, they'd lived together

for a time in the house. Tim Arnold was one of the few men under the age of 70 in Truro year-round.

Krista's friend Steve Radlauer says her relationship with Arnold at times contentious apparently

was over. I don't think that she ever entertained the idea that this was going to develop into a long-term

relationship that they were going to get married or anything like that. But he may have.

He may have. From what I understand, he was more serious about that as a long-term

possibility than she was. Arnold emphatically denied to police that he had anything to do with

the crime. Otherwise, he refused to discuss Krista Worthington. These days Arnold struggles with

health problems, mainly affecting his vision. But he says memories of what happened in 2002

never are far from his thoughts. I think about it a long. I think about it just about every day.

Sometimes writes about Krista.

The Krista I knew was a person of contradictions. She was by turns bright,

talented and ambitious, and then a homebody who wanted nothing more than to spend time with her

child. While Tim Arnold may have been at the top of the suspect list,

I was in a few to a lot. Early on, Ava's father, Tony Jacket, wasn't far behind.

You can certainly understand why the police would think that you had a motive to kill her.

Why had he no motive? What was the motive? Ava? Wow. According to Krista's friends,

Jacket had little time for the baby at first, and eventually Krista demanded that he at least

pay child support. She also demanded that he tell his wife, Susan. You didn't have a clue? No.

He said I had an affair, and he said there's a child, and I said you're kidding.

Then to Tony's total shock, she forgave him. It's been too many years, and he's a nice man.

People make mistakes. He's only human. Look at it, isn't it lovely? I don't want this anger in me.

I just want to make this all work. And by the time of the murder, the Jacket's claim,

it was more or less working. The three of them had a relationship of sorts with Ava at its

center. Tony, they say, had no reason to kill Krista. We had her over for dinner,

and it was a little uncomfortable the first time. But the more I got to know her, I liked her.

I thought she was a nice person. Susan says Tony was at home with her when Krista was killed,

but police refused to rule anyone out. And the suspect list was expanding to Agatha

Christie's size proportions. At times, even including Tony's then son-in-law, Keith Amato,

who'd taken an outside shower to at Krista's house near the beach. Even Krista's elderly

father was drawn into the investigation. Through his 29-year-old girlfriend,

a former heroin addict upon whom Krista thought he was spending far too much money.

Meanwhile, the state crime lab was hopelessly backed up. Months passed with no word on the DNA

taken from Krista's body. The police went to the FBI for a profile of the killer, but nobody

seemed a fit. Then finally, a year after the murder, the crime lab at last produced results,

disappointing results. Because the DNA from Krista didn't match Tony Jacket, or Tim Arnold,

or any other suspect the police had.

You have this ever-widening circle, if you will, of investigation going on.

First group of people are looked at very, very intensely. Nothing is developing. You widen

that circle. The widened circle brought in DNA from repairmen, trashmen, deliverymen,

with pressure mounting, DAO Keefe took an unprecedented step, asking for DNA from every single man

in Truro. State police investigators were actually in Truro today asking men outside the post office,

outside coffee shops for saliva samples. At that point, like, what are you crazy? I mean,

this is such a needle in a haystack. How many people have been tested so far? I'm not going to say

specifically, but dozens of people, dozens and dozens. These guys are throwing

darts at an elephant, you know? I mean, they got no chance. It's just crazy.

But chance is a strange thing.

In the three years, police were searching for Christa Worthington's killer,

an uneasy piece settled over Cape Cod.

There's somebody that knows it. Still, no arrest in this case. No one's been ruled out either.

As the investigation dragged on, you know, it just makes you think, you know. No one has been named

only the random DNA roundup got much public attention. It did seem to smack some desperation.

Meanwhile, whole books were being written about this unsolved murder. Investigators under intense

pressure still would rule no one out, including Tony Jacket. I'm left in limbo if they don't

solve it and it's not right. Little Ava, his daughter with Christa, was sent to live with a friend,

Amira Chase, whom Christa had named Ava's guardian inner will. Jacket was allowed to see his daughter

only one afternoon a week. Who loves you? That's right. Yeah, he loves you. Yeah, you know,

that's my daughter. You know, the chase is nothing to this little girl.

He fought for custody. Worthington, Jacket matters. Zero two,

zero, zero, zero, six. Long ride. But lost to Christa's friend and Tony thinks he knows why.

While being a suspect, I definitely cost me custody more than anything else. A custody of my daughter.

By 2005, Jacket was getting used to another reality. It was just kind of the level of the fact that

the perception of my being a suspect is going to stay. But then on April 7th, investigators caught a

stunning break. The crime lab had a hit. We have a brief statement to make. A match for DNA found

outside and inside Christa's body. It was just was a bombshell, huge bombshell because we were just

electrified. Couldn't believe that they had come up with a match. Suddenly, a match, a suspect,

and an arrest all announced to the world by DA Michael O'Keefe three and a half years after the

crime. Last night at approximately 7 15 p.m. detectives from the Massachusetts state police arrested

Christopher A McGowan for the 2002 murder of Christa A. Worthington.

Which had a lot of people in town asking, Christopher who? Who would have figured it would have been

the garbage man. That's right. Christopher McGowan had been Christa Worthington's garbage man.

True was astonished and relieved. It seemed like a done deal. The results were. They were in the

quadrillions. So you're talking about as absolute as one could possibly get? Well, you know, pretty much.

Police picked up a docile McGowan at his rooming house lying on the bed watching cartoons.

Marijuana and an open bottle of prescription pain killers were on the table nearby.

Incredibly, he'd been right under their noses from the start. Did you kill Christa?

Interviewed twice, both times he had denied knowing Christa Worthington. He'd given police as DNA

voluntarily more than a year earlier. The laboratory could not get you results as quickly as we

would have liked them. Well, a year. Right, right. When detectives took him in for questioning,

McGowan waived his right to a lawyer. They say he again denied knowing Christa.

And then he's presented with what I would suggest is a relatively strong piece of evidence

that he's lying. DNA. Correct. Police say that's when his story changed.

He admits that yes, he went there on Friday night.

Yes, he had sex with her. And yes, he beat her.

But he doesn't want to bring himself to admit that he killed her. So he blames the worst part of it

on someone else. The somebody else was McCowan's friend Jeremy Frazier, who'd been with him the

night of the murder. But Frazier's DNA wasn't found anywhere on Christa's body. Was there an

operating assumption that the last person who'd had sex with Christa Worthington had killed her?

Yes. From the beginning? Yes. And you believe that to be the case?

Yes. Christa from McCowan's interview with the police barracks lasted about six hours. And for

whatever reason, he declined to have it recorded. So the only record of this crucial interview

is a report some 20 pages long that the detectives wrote from their notes about a week later.

In it, McCowan is sometimes confused and comes up with at least half a dozen different versions

of what really happened. The night police say Christa Worthington died.

Christa McCowan didn't commit this crime and the police know it.

Attorney Bob George took McCowan's case after the police interrogation and says they

jumped to conclusions from the start. Noting that the DA's website listed this murder as

solved almost from the moment of McCowan's arrest. A person of Christa McCowan's race,

class, and limited capacities was an easy target. And especially easy target, he says,

because Christa from McCowan literally wasn't smart enough to defend himself.

This is a person with a 76 to a 78 IQ on his best day, meaning on a day where he's not using drugs

in alcohol, not under pressure. Under pressure and under the influence. He was using percussive

that day. He was using marijuana that day. George says his client was putty in the hands of

the police. This is a false confession and I don't accept it. I don't know how much of it is

actually coming from Christa McCowan's mouth or how much of it is coming from the police

investigation. I don't know. As for the DNA, the linchpin of the prosecution's case,

the significance of that, George says, is all in how you look at this crime.

And the police, he's about to tell the jury, are looking at it all wrong.

Three individuals under her fingernails.

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Down the cave today, the infamous Crystal Whirlington murder case has gone from a who-done it

to a courtroom drama.

Prosecutors go into Christopher McAllen's trial confident that the jury will accept their simple

theory of Crystal Whirlington's murder.

That he went to this location for the purpose of having sex with this person.

That that was denied to him and in a rage, he raped her and killed her.

The case against Christa's alleged killer, District Attorney Michael O'Keefe concedes,

depends on two vital pieces of evidence.

The DNA and the statement together were the two major pillars of the case.

First, the DNA.

We perform DNA analysis on 23 samples.

The state's expert says it proves beyond doubt that McAllen had sex with Crystal Whirlington.

Christopher McAllen matched the major profile in the mixture.

Then, the statement.

Can you tell us your name for the record, Christa?

My name is Christopher Mason.

With Christa's father and other family members looking on,

Trooper Christopher Mason tells the court that although McAllen didn't actually confess,

he did admit to police that he beat Christa and watched her die.

Mr. McAllen stayed. I never meant for that way to get killed. It's a nightmare after nightmare.

And not a day goes by but I don't think about it.

He went up there looking for sex.

Crystal Whirlington confronted him and it got very ugly.

In the prosecution scenario, McAllen was drinking heavily that night.

He joined friends at a local club.

They were videotaped by an onlooker while taking part in a rap contest.

This person wanted the company of a woman

after partying and drinking all night.

So, O'Keefe continues at around 130 AM, McAllen drove to Christa's house in Turoh,

where he killed her.

And he was alone.

He was alone.

And he didn't have any prior relationship with her.

Other than his familiarity with who she was,

where she lived and the fact that she lived alone.

That is where McAllen's attorney, Bob George, insists prosecutors have it all wrong.

Now, when he filed the DNA for 39 months, you will hear.

They were looking to speak to Christa's last lover.

He wants to convince the jury there is reasonable doubt about everything in this case.

Suddenly, Christa's last lover was outrageous.

For starters, George claims his client and Christa may have been involved.

Christa McCallen could have reasonably had a consensual sexual relationship.

Well, Christa Worthington, in anyone who doesn't believe it,

is someone who just refuses to accept it.

And that's the defense's explanation for the damning DNA evidence

that Christa Worthington voluntarily had sex with McGowan,

probably that Thursday, his day for picking up the trash.

And that later, someone else came along

and killed her.

You don't have McAllen's fingerprints at that scene.

You don't have McAllen's hair at that scene.

You don't have McAllen's DNA at that scene.

Consensual sexual episode on Thursday.

But George says getting the jury to believe that could be a problem,

because his client is being tried in Lily White Cape Cod.

If you had the same body of evidence,

and Johnny Whitebred was home for the holidays,

it was from some affluent family on the Cape.

The same body of evidence he wouldn't have been charged.

But miles away in New York,

Christa Worthington's former boyfriend, Steve Radlauer,

says race has nothing at all to do with his doubts.

Let's hear about that consensual relationship.

How long had that been going on?

I saw Christa two weeks before she was murdered, roughly.

Wasn't going on then, because we would have heard about it.

That would have been her top story.

Top of the Christian news would have been,

I'm having an affair with my local trash man.

You won't believe it.

Top story.

Back in court, the defense also must deal with its other big problem.

That statement.

And would he walked into that police station on April 14, 2005?

The police had to get a statement out of him.

So they intimidated him, George,

argues in a six-hour interrogation.

Much as they'd done with other suspects, like Tim Arnold.

And when you told them that you did not kill Christa Worthington,

what was said to you?

Oh, yes, I had.

It was like getting worked over, you know?

Like physically getting beaten up.

Another one-time suspect, Keith Amato,

described a similar experience.

Trooper, Maul, slammed his hand down on the table

and said, this is the murder investigation.

And if we so choose, we will turn your life inside out.

They did exactly the same thing to them that they did the McCowan,

except that they were smart enough.

And they had to wear with all in the background

to know when to say, stop, cut it out.

I'm not doing this anymore. I want to lawyer.

As far as IQs go, what's the score for someone who's mentally retired?

George's witness, forensic psychologist, Eric Brown,

claims that with an IQ of about 76,

Christa from MacGowan simply couldn't understand the police's questions.

169 is mentally retarded?

Yes.

And he's 76 on his best day.

Yes.

Robbish says the prosecution.

MacGowan seems smart enough when Brown gave him an intelligence test.

For relativity, he indicated Einstein.

And for Gandhi, he wrote spiritual leader of India.

And for Koran, he wrote Muslim Bible.

That's correct.

And he was clever enough, the state argues,

to concoct a story blaming someone else.

The whole truth.

His friend, Jeremy Frazier,

who appeared uncomfortable the moment he took the stand.

Did you drive up to Christa Wellington's house

with Christa from MacGowan?

Oh, yeah.

Did you have anything at all to do with her deaths?

No, I didn't.

But Bob George wants the jury to believe

Frazier could have.

What were you talking about?

A couple of bears at the party.

Did you tell the police it was like six Koran's?

I don't recall.

Certainly, Frazier and MacGowan were together that night.

The videotaped rap contest shows Frazier

listening to music with MacGowan nearby.

But Frazier supplied an alibi.

He later was seen at another party,

then slept at a friend's house.

And his DNA doesn't show up anywhere at the crime scene.

He was a convenient patsy for the defendant to blame.

There's nothing to do with this murder.

No.

Bob George also argues that police

bungled the whole investigation.

There were fibers, hairs, DNA that never made it to a lab,

and a crime scene contaminated by careless EMTs.

They had all kinds of evidence at that scene

that was either mishandled, ignored, or thrown away.

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While the jury in the Christa Worthington murder trial

deliberates...

There's always that question as to what's the truth.

What is in the trauma?

The case is still being tried in the court of public opinion.

Who had been following the trial?

And everyone in town's got an opinion.

I think the preponderance of evidence indicates that he's guilty.

The key deserves every bit of a reason to vote out if it's there.

I wouldn't be surprised if the guy gets off.

Days go by the clock ticks on without a verdict.

It's always good when they're out a long time.

Christopher McCowan's lawyer, Bob George,

is taking an optimistic view, insisting that time and the evidence are on his side.

If you can't trust what you find at the crime scene,

because the scene has been corrupted,

if you can't trust the statement because it's unreliable,

and if the DNA doesn't mean anything because the defendant could have been

involved in a consensual relationship with the victim,

then what happened?

For five agonizing days, the jury, including two African Americans,

debates that very question.

They said they were hopelessly deadlocked.

Then on day six, a shocker.

The judge announces he is throwing one juror off the panel,

a white woman whose boyfriend was arrested in an unrelated crime,

in a phone call with him, she was taped criticizing the police,

and there's concern about bias.

Two days after a new juror is seated,

the log jam breaks.

Once say you miss a woman, Christopher McCowan learns his fate.

We've endured and we turn the following verdict of guilty of murder in the first grade.

He was devastated by the verdict,

anyone with eyes could see that he was terribly hurt by what happened.

Hours later, before he sentenced, he addresses the court for the first time.

This case here is a very new and this case,

I feel sorry for building this family, our daughter, and her.

And they're a minute for this, you know what they're supposed to do.

But he still claims he had nothing to do with Crystal Worthington's death.

But all I can say is that I'm an innocent man in this case,

and that's all I got to say.

The court doesn't buy it.

The court and thereby sends you to being prison at the Massachusetts

Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction,

for and during the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole.

When the death number is 05-109-02, the jury has filed a guilty and had a real break.

Did I want to not guilty? Of course I wanted to not guilty.

You know, my belief in McCowan's innocence is what drove me.

I believed he was innocent and still believes he's innocent,

and will believe he's not guilty until the day I die.

Do you want me to stand at the podium?

Even after the verdict, Bob George refuses to give up.

He's a little suspicious about what really happened to get that juror removed.

You've got a juror receiving phone calls on her cell phone from someone who's incarcerated

in a deliberating deadlock jury in a major murder case from the jail.

You don't have to be all over what the home is to figure out there's something strange about that.

We'll find out what happened.

I think there's a lot of conspiracy theory types that, you know, will never be satisfied.

Eric Williams, who's covered the case from day one,

says while replacing the juror confused things, in the end,

he has confidence in the jury's decision.

There was enough evidence it seemed to push them to unanimously agree, and I think,

for most Cape codders, that's good enough.

Oh, this case changed my life.

It's radically.

It's not something that you ever imagine you're going to have to deal with.

Kind of like being at a dock tunnel.

I wonder if you'll ever see light again.

You go out at this point all over.

Now officially cleared as a suspect in Christa's murder,

Tony Jacket is relieved at the verdict.

The jury is deliberated and carefully looked at all the evidence.

Although remarkably, he isn't sure the jury got it right.

I felt there was a reasonable doubt all over the place.

I think about the trial.

I think about what it did to me and I think about her.

Tim Arnold, too, is happy it's finally over,

but to this day, he is haunted by what happened.

Sometimes the weight of events forces you to look back.

And what do you want to or not?

Just something that's always there.

These happened to be a few snapshots I took of Eva and Christa when they were here

only a couple of weeks before she was killed.

Eva lives still with her legal guardians, and by all accounts, she is doing well.

One pretty little girl.

Yeah, she was really sweet.

When you look at this today, what goes through your mind?

Well, you know, I mean, basically I think she was really happy.

She was a great person. We miss her a lot.

Eva never will remember those happy times,

but Christa's friends are determined that one day she will know how much her mother loved her.

How would you want to tell her about the past?

A little bit at a time.

Yeah, that's good.

Eva won't have her, that's the enduring tragedy, the whole thing.

Christa from accounts' defense continues to explore legal options.

He has filed four motions for a new trial since his conviction.

All have been denied.

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