The mother was awful she took vacations without her husband and kids. What mom unless she is going on a romantic relationship with her husband leaves her kids at home? My mother wouldn't my wife wouldn't and she made this trial about her. She also proved she was a bad mother by leaking details the police told her "not" to who does that? A woman who wanted to be interviewed over and over again. The case itself was not a good case take the emotion out of it and there is too much reasonable doubt to make it impossible for a guilty verdict in just 2 hours. A lot of these cases become about the D/A winning not justice. These D/As get promotion and pay raises for convictions that in itself makes it hard to keep from them abusing their power. In this case the defense made a mistake the prosecution "lost" the crime scene tape then found it after the trial started. This should have been a mistrial from the beginning as of 2023 we know the police and the Da's hide or plant evidence. Note: I support the police but a few bad police officers have hurt their reputation along with some DA's who seem to be pushing agenda's not looking for justice. We have DA's who are far left supporters refusing to prosecute people for example Jussie Smollett. The D/A did not have the power to not charge him there was to much evidence. A special prosecutor was brought in and said charges should have brought all along this was and example of a D/A pushing their personal agenda not the law. If you have ever seen what going on in our courts today you would know that there is where the real problem is in our courts and in our prisons. They are the major problem with our justice system not the police. We need more civilian review boards to. I had a friend who was not legally incompetent but was slow. He was arrested and charged with burglary he was in Florida when these crimes occurred in the East Coast. The D/A and the police did not care they told him to plead guilty to 7 "open" investigation of burglary or they would ask for 10 years in prison. They told him if he plead guilty he would get 1 to 3 years and be out in less than a year. He plead guilty I asked him why he didn't do it he had and Albi he said I could do a year I could not do 10. He felt because of his record there was no way anyone would believe him. I told him if he ever gets arrested again to call me the police cleared 7 burglaries (not really) and the D/A got a conviction they were happy but no justice was served. Later stuff from the burglaries turned up in a pawn shop and the guy who actually committed the burglaries walked free. At best all they could charge him with is receiving stolen property even though he confessed to the robberies hoping for a deal. The D/A did not charge him with anything because it would show he put the wrong guy in jail. I mention this because everyone believed he had a record and were not told he was in Florida they all believed he was guilty based Soley upon his past. This why we can't convict someone when reasonable doubt is there. I am not saying the man in the above case was not guilty but I am not saying he was guilty either the prospection failed to make its case. In this country the prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt the person is guilty. The law goes so far is to give the judge the power to throw out a jury conviction if he or she feels the burden of proof was not met. This was one of those cases it was over a decade old and there was no proof the man was where she was killed. No one saw them together ever and yes people who seem to have the perfect life turn out to have had multiple affairs Dateline has shown these cases. None of their family or friends new this again proving you can not without any doubt say there is no reasonable doubt a single girl thousand miles from her boyfriend did not have an affair. Actually 99% of long distance relationships end up with cheating. How many young men or women go off to college leaving their girlfriend or boyfriend behind and stay together it is rare that they do. To have the defense say this and the prosecutor say it's an impossibility was a lie based on reality. Again, at best they proved she had sex with the defendant had sex with her but they could not prove what day it could have been 3 days before her death that is a fact they could not prove when. Since so much time had gone by they were looking at a 41 year old man thinking he had sex with and 18 year old it must be rape. The truth is he was only 21 when they had sex but they push their narrative he was a older man who raped a young woman despite having nothing to prove it. The jury is going by what they see and hear from the prosecutor and despite his lies there should have been enough reasonable doubt for and acquittal. I wrote this because I saw first hand what happens when a D/A makes his or her mind up they stop investigating and only look at their target. Google people sent to prison who were not guilty and you will be surprised how many times it happened.