The little girl hadn’t spoken since the night her mother was found on the kitchen floor! Then the court dog lowered his head-and she whispered one sentence toward the defense table…

belief. Then she took Boone’s vest in one hand and Denise’s fingers in the other, and walked out without looking back.

Ava did not leave the courthouse when the first day ended.

She sat in a third-floor conference room long after the reporters had packed up and the cleaning crew had begun rolling trash cans down the hall. Lily’s crayon drawing lay inside continue reading …