Andrew Byrd was born July 28th, 2002 in Corpus Christi, Texas. He had a 16-year-old mother who admitted to using alcohol, meth, cocaine, crack cocaine, LSD, marijuana, cigarettes, and prescription Xanax. Wow. Andrew’s early life was marked with instability. His father was 17 and worked for a traveling carnival.
Now, Child Protective Services launched its investigation shortly after Andrew’s first birthday when his mother brought him to a hospital with a broken arm. Four subsequent investigations followed triggered by reports of neglect including allegations that both his mother and grandmother used meth and were incapable of properly caring for him.
When Andrew was 2 and 1/2 years old, the CPS determined he was in danger and placed him in foster care. Both parents’ parental rights were terminated shortly after he became three. Now, Larry and Hannah Overton were a devout Christian couple in Corpus Christi. They already had four children when they considered adoption in 2005. Larry installed landscape lighting for a living and his income barely covered their expenses, but their desire to adopt was rooted in faith rather than practicality.
Hannah, who had worked as a private duty nurse for disabled children before becoming a stay-at-home mother, had spent holidays as a teenager volunteering at orphanage in Mexico. She told Larry she was willing to adopt a child with disabilities or an older child who had been unable to find a permanent home. They initially considered adopting a 9-year-old deaf girl, but after much prayer and deliberation, they learned she’d been placed with another family.
The Overtons heard about Andrew at their church, which Andrew’s foster mother also attended. The non-denominational church drew many young evangelicals with its emphasis on Bible study. Larry taught Sunday school, Hannah led a Bible study, and their home-schooled children were active in youth group. Andrew attended services every Sunday with his foster mother, and with his blond hair and beaming grin, he was hard to miss.
He had a speech delay and spoke haltingly, sometimes with a stutter, but every week during prayer requests, he made the same wish that he would be adopted. The Overtons’ daughters, Isabel and Ally, told their parents the new boy in their class needed a family and asked if Andrew could be their brother.
A church elder, who was himself an adoptive parent, invited the Overtons to dinner and encouraged them to consider bringing Andrew into their home. Andrew’s foster mother, Sharon Hamill, who had provided refuge to roughly 300 children over the decades, was supportive, but others at the chapel expressed concern.
See, the church’s pastor, Rod Carver, and his wife, Noreen, had initially considered taking in Andrew, but ultimately decided he was more than they could handle. Andrew’s Sunday school teacher was more direct. She sat Hannah and Larry down and warned them Andrew was a troubled kid. He hoarded food and sometimes ate from the trash.
He threw intense temper tantrums that could only be tamed by holding and rocking him. On several occasions, his fits had grown so extreme that she had resorted to asking a male parishioner to physically remove him from the classroom until he could regain self-control. She urged the couple to think of their other children. Hannah, however, shrugged off these warnings and believed Andrew would improve once he had the stability of a permanent home.
And that’s a fair point. With all the abuse Andrew had experienced, his trauma is there to be seen. Hannah told Larry all Andrew needed was lots of love and attention. The Overtons moved forward with the adoption process and in spring 2006 they received word Andrew would live with them. This was an initial 6-month trial period before the adoption was finalized.
Larry built a three-tiered bunk bed for Andrew and their other boys, Isaac and Sebastian. Knowing Andrew loved Spider-Man, they prepared Spider-Man sheets, pajamas, a Spider-Man toothbrush, Spider-Man towel, and a swimsuit. Andrew spent his first night at the Overtons’ ranch-style house on Mother’s Day, 2 months shy of his fourth birthday.
He seemed to quickly grow attached to his new family, calling Hannah and Larry Mommy and Daddy. He followed Larry everywhere, often stepping on his heels as he trailed after him. At Sunday school, he became more expressive, stringing words into sentences and holding hands with his new sister, Ali. An adoption supervisor noted in her paperwork that the Overtons were nurturing, loving, patient, and very family-oriented and that Andrew seemed very happy in the home.
The transition appeared smooth at first. Andrew seemed to enjoy having brothers and sisters to play with. And the Overtons’ children, especially the girls, were happy with the new arrival. Although he hung back when his siblings embraced their parents in group hugs, Larry and Hannah learned that if they asked Andrew to join in, he would do so enthusiastically.
Whenever he got scared, and there was a long list of things that petrified him, from swimming to large crowds, the Overtons worked to help overcome his fears, reassuring him they loved him and that he was in safe surroundings. Of course, that’s the trauma talking. However, Larry and Hannah observed behaviors that concerned them.
See, Andrew, developmentally, he was on target, but he had a bit of a speech delay. But the Overtons noted he acted more like a toddler than a preschooler. If he wanted an object, he pointed to it and grunted. At 4 years old, he spent most of his time playing with 2-year-old Sebastian rather than Ali, who was his own age, and his motor skills lagged far behind those of his peers.
He moved unsteadily, and he was so clumsy that Hannah had him wear a life jacket whenever he splashed around in the inflatable kiddie pool. Most striking to the Overtons, their neighbors and friends, was Andrew’s preoccupation with eating. Regardless of how much he ate, he complained he was always hungry. And if he didn’t get his second or even third sitting, he would throw a tantrum or get down on his hands to scavenge the floor for crumbs.
Larry and Hannah caught him trying to eat cat food, crayons, toothpaste, glow sticks, and tufts of carpeting, anything he could get his hands on. When they took him on errands, they had to keep him from eating old gum and cigarette butts he found on the ground. The Overtons were not overly concerned initially.
In the classes they had been required to take by CPS to become adoptive parents, they had been warned foster children were well known to hoard food and were likely to have eating disorders. And given the neglect he experienced in the first year of his life, his development can be profound and not to be too surprised if Andrew was just a little bit different to his new siblings.
Before he went to the Overton family, his foster mother at the time had taken him to a pediatrician for an adoption screening shortly before he came to live with them, and the check-up had raised no red flags. Larry and Hannah truly thought his obsession with food was a behavioral issue, not a medical one. They believed he would stop turning to food for comfort when he learned he could trust them.
So, to try and curtail Andrew’s compulsive eating, they put him in time-outs though to little effect. Other couples they knew who had adopted foster children assured them that kids generally outgrow their eating issues, and the Overtons assumed that with time Andrew would outgrow this as well. Then Andrew’s behavior worsened.
In September 2006, after the family was involved in a car accident. You see, the family were returning from a visit from the obstetrician’s office. They all went to find out whether the new baby Hannah was expecting was a boy or a girl. The mood in the car was happy as the kids discussed the news they would have a baby sister.
However, Larry, he was distracted. He ran a stop sign and collided with another car. The passenger side of their old Ford van was not equipped with an airbag, and in that moment Hannah had taken off her seatbelt so she could turn around and talk with the kids. She was jolted forward, her face hit the dashboard. In the chaos that followed, no one recognized how distressed Andrew was by the sight of Hannah’s bloody face.
Hannah and the girls, who complained of feeling achy, were taken to the hospital in an ambulance, while Larry’s parents picked up the rest of the family and took the boys to a nearby Whataburger. Throughout the meal, Andrew repeatedly asked, “Is my mom okay?” But then he kept requesting more food. Hannah herself was left with whiplash and a severely swollen jaw, and she spent the next several weeks immobilized by a neck brace, mostly confined to bed.
Financially, the accident had come at quite a precarious time. Larry had recently purchased his boss’s landscape lighting business and needed to put in long hours just to make ends meet. Relatives, neighbors, and church members pitched in to look after the kids during Hannah’s recovery, but the revolving door of caregivers proved difficult for Andrew, who began acting out on a scale they’d never seen before.
He picked at mosquito bites on his body incessantly, prompting Larry to pull socks on his hands. Still, Andrew would not stop scratching and eventually developed a staph infection on his arm. His tantrums grew longer and more extreme, and he often banged his head against the floor. Sometimes he cried for hours. Overwhelmed, the Overtons sought guidance in prayer.
Andrew’s preoccupation with eating then intensified and he began getting out of bed at night and he started looking for food in the kitchen. So, to show him that his behavior was self-destructive, Larry told Andrew one morning that he could have as much as he wanted for breakfast. Larry knew it would probably make him sick, but he wanted Andrew to understand that there are limits.
At Andrew’s request, he made a plate of sausage and more than a dozen eggs, all of which the boy ate. At the age of four, wow. Andrew continued eating until he threw up. Then he asked for more. Perplexed, Larry installed a baby monitor equipped with a video camera in the boy’s room so that he could observe if Andrew was waking up in the middle of the night and going to the kitchen.
And it was while watching the monitor that Hannah saw the boy trying to eat part of his foam mattress and the paint off the wall. She reported Andrew’s unusual eating habits to his adoption supervisor when she visited the Overton home on September 25th. Now, the supervisor suggested that Andrew might have an eating disorder called pica, which is characterized by a desire to consume things that have no nutritional value, and she recommended he be evaluated by a specialist.
So, Sunday, October 1st, Larry took the other kids to church while Hannah devoted some extra attention to Andrew. Before the family returned home, Andrew asked if he could have lunch, and Hannah said, “No, Larry’s about to come back. He’ll bring you food. It’s only going to be a few minutes.
” But then Andrew flew into a rage. He defecated on the floor on his bedroom, then smeared feces on the bed, the dresser, and the walls. Larry attempted to restore order upon his return, putting Andrew’s soiled sheets in the garbage and hosing off the boy and his foam mattress in the backyard. And while Larry tried to scrub down the bedroom, Andrew pulled his sheets out of the trash several times despite repeated warnings not to do so.
Losing his patience, Larry took the sheets to the family’s fire pit and burned them. Larry later conceded this was not the brightest thing to do, but he was frustrated. The sheets were filthy, and Andrew was getting feces everywhere. But Larry did make sure Andrew could see that they had an identical set of Spider-Man sheets so that he would calm down.
That evening, Larry laid a sleeping bag on top of Andrew’s plywood bed frame where he told the boy he would have to spend the night while his mattress finished drying. The three oldest Overton children had gone to their aunt’s house to see their cousins who were visiting from out of town, and Andrew grew increasingly agitated and restless, throwing a tantrum at 3:00 a.m.
The Overtons had been warned that adoption could be difficult, and this was not going to be easy. They were having a hard time, but they knew it was is to pass. They were in it for the long haul. Now, on October 2nd, Larry left for work in the morning, and Hannah, who was still in considerable pain from her car accident, gave Andrew and Sebastian breakfast before bringing them into the bed with her to watch cartoons.
Exhausted from the previous night, she fell asleep, but then she woke to discover Andrew had left the room. She found him standing in the pantry near the baking ingredients, having pulled something off the shelves. She could not recall later what exactly had been holding in his hand, and according to Hannah, Andrew once again asked for an early lunch, and once again, when she said, “You’re going to have to wait.
” He defecated and smeared feces across the floor. Hannah managed to clean him up, but when she reiterated he would have to wait till lunchtime, he defecated again. Finally, she relented, heating up what she had. There was leftover vegetable beef soup flavored with Creole seasoning. And then after 12, Larry picked her and the boys up and took them to a McDonald’s drive-thru.
However, Andrew was told he couldn’t have any McDonald’s because he had already eaten. Imagine how the boy must have been feeling. They’re having McDonald’s, I’m not having McDonald’s. Again, Larry was fair in his treatment, but you can imagine how the boy must have been feeling still. Either way, Hannah gave him more leftover soup, but then he wanted more in the car, and she refused.
Then he threw a tantrum shouting, “I hate you.” Finally, Hannah thought, “Well, let me get some of this Creole seasoning. I’ll put it in a sippy cup hoping that the taste alone would appease him.” After drinking a little, he threw another tantrum and then continued for 20 minutes. And then when they got home, Andrew threw up.
The boy’s symptoms that afternoon, vomiting, chills, and lethargy, initially suggested to the Overtons that he had a routine ailment like a stomach bug, but as the afternoon wore on, his symptoms grew troubling. His breathing became congested, and he became less and less responsive. Just after 5:00, the Overtons put him in a car and rushed him to a nearby urgent care clinic.
And while they were a block away from the clinic, as they waited for red light, Andrew stopped breathing. Frantic, Hannah began administering CPR in the backseat. At the clinic, she continued giving him mouth-to-mouth chest compressions until paramedics took over. But, the 4-year-old lay motionless. He soon lapsed into a coma.
The next morning, Corpus Christi Police Detective Michael Hess paid a visit to Cathy Halla. She was the next-door neighbor. She knew the family well. Like Hannah, Cathy homeschooled her children, and the two mothers split teaching duties. Families shared an unofficial open-door policy.
And when Andrew had begun acting up the previous afternoon, Hannah called Cathy for help, asking if she could look after Sebastian for a little while. Hannah had been composed, despite the strain she was under. Remember, she was pregnant. Cathy and Anna had known each other for 10 years, and Cathy said she didn’t think she’d ever seen Hannah mad.
Now, Hess, who investigated child abuse cases for the police force’s family unit, had a very different impression of Hannah. The detective had been alerted to Andrew’s grave condition when the boy was transported to a nearby hospital. Hess began looking into the circumstances surrounding the boy’s unusual and rapid decline.
Cathy, who took notes documenting her conversation with Hess, recalled the detective’s certainty Hannah had tried to kill Andrew. According to Cathy, he told her, “Look, she’s pregnant. She has all these kids. It’s all getting too much for her. So, she had to find an easy way out.” Insinuating that she took Andrew’s life cuz she’s under stress.
Cathy was stunned. She kept denying Hannah could do such a thing. Hannah would never harm a child. Even setting aside her loyalty to her friend, the detective’s theory made no sense to Cathy. See, at the time, Andrew’s adoption hadn’t been finalized. If Hannah was looking for a way out, she could have just sent him back, telling the adoption agency her and Larry couldn’t go through with it.
But the police detective’s suspicions had developed the previous evening during an interview with Hannah, who had consented to talk with him without an attorney. Now, the medical staff at Driscoll Children’s Hospital had determined Andrew had nearly twice the normal level of sodium in his blood, a highly abnormal finding, as well as bleeding in the brain.
As Hess questioned her, he tried to ascertain what had happened, but Hannah, who was bewildered by Andrew’s condition, had no ready answers. She was impatient to return to the boy’s bedside. She gave a hurried, disjointed account of what happened that day, such as how she found Andrew in the pantry.
And she made only fleeting mention of his unusual eating habits. To Hess, he couldn’t see what caused the trauma to the brain. It couldn’t have been the high salt, so he tried to get Hannah to tell him more. He said, “Did you at any time strike him?” And throughout the interrogation, which spanned more than 2 hours, Hannah insisted that she had never harmed Andrew.
Hannah did describe how she and Larry had first tried to treat the boy’s symptoms themselves, often volunteering more information than the detective had asked. When Andrew started breathing funny, she told Hess she had administered asthma medication with a nebulizer, hoping to open up his airways. When he became less responsive, she had pulled out her old EMT books to assess what was wrong.
Larry had also tried to rouse him by giving him a warm bath. This is before they took him to the clinic. Remember, Hannah had studied years earlier to be an EMT. And although she had never worked as a paramedic, she felt confident in her training. When Andrew’s condition worsened, that’s when her and Larry called 911 or go to the care clinic.
The problem they had though was that Andrew had no health insurance. And the CPS had not yet sent them his social security card, which they needed to get him insured. She and Larry were under tremendous financial strain, but she did stress that they had rushed for help as soon as they realized how critical Andrew’s condition was. However, Hess remained skeptical of Hannah’s account.
To Hess, during the entire conversation, Hannah showed almost no emotion. In the context of a criminal investigation, the calm that she had always exhibited in the midst of crisis was suddenly a liability. An indication perhaps that she was cold-blooded enough to have taken her child’s life. Now, a pediatric critical care specialist who treated Andrew grew equally troubled.
EMS records show that the boy was admitted with no more than a bruised knee and sores on his right elbow. But during his hospitalization, other significant black and blue marks emerged, in particular on his trunk and nose. You see, the EMTs and hospital staff, they vigorously poked and prodded the boy attempting to revive him when he stopped breathing.
He ended up at Christus Spohn Hospital. Then he went to Driscoll Hospital where he was transferred to the intensive care unit. CPR had also been performed for an extended period by Hannah and later by medical personnel who had squeezed the boy’s nose and administered chest compressions for 35 minutes. But the doctor, Dr.
Rotter, was alarmed by his overall appearance. To him, this was not a child that came into the office looking well. This is a child that came to the ER with cardiac arrest and was dying. To the doctor, he was convinced he was in the presence of a crime. And within hours of Andrew’s arrival at the hospital, the Overtons’ home had been searched and soon more facts seemed to bolster the notion of abuse.
You see, on Andrew’s bed, it just had plywood. There was no mattress. They found the burnt Spider-Man sheets in the fire pit. And then there was the abnormally high sodium level, coupled with Hannah’s account of feeding him Creole seasoning after he misbehaved. For police, that’s kind of weird. Why has he got no mattress? Why are the sheets burnt? And why are you feeding him seasoning? And to police, it didn’t matter that Cathy, who had seen Andrew in the days leading up to his hospitalization, and that she’d never observed any suspicious
bruises or indications of abuse. In the eyes of the police, Hannah and Larry were not grieving parents, but perpetrators of an appalling crime. As Andrew’s condition got worse, CPS barred the Overtons from visiting their son. They were not allowed to be at Andrew’s bedside the evening of October 3rd. This is when he experienced massive organ failure. And then at 9:30 p.m., he died.
The state’s case would be predicted in part on the findings of Ray Fernandez. He was the county medical examiner. He ruled the death a homicide. Fernandez determined the boy had died as a result of sodium toxicity with blunt force head trauma. He believed Andrew had sustained a head injury and it was based on the presence of a half-inch area of hemorrhaging under the scalp.
There was no evidence of external bleeding or injuries to Andrew’s head. However, Fernandez conceded that the hemorrhaging could have been related to the elevated sodium in the blood. Now, district judge Jose Longoria would oversee Hannah’s trial the following fall, and he would later rule Fernandez’s findings of blunt force trauma to be inadmissible because it was not based on sufficient data or reliable methodology.
Nevertheless, the idea that Andrew had sustained a head injury propelled the case forward, further casting Hannah as an abuser. That perception threw her other children into investigation as well, and during a wide-ranging interview with social workers to determine if the children had ever been abused, one of them, Isaac, mentioned he and his siblings had been given pepper, which he described as spicy stuff, as a punishment for lying.
The explanation for this, though, was that one of their former pastors had advocated reprimanding children when they were dishonest. One of the methods was to put a single red pepper flake on their tongues. What the hell? And of course, given that Hannah was suspected of poisoning Andrew with Creole seasoning, that’s a first, by the way.
Never heard of that kind of poisoning before. I don’t think you have either, right? But given the Creole seasoning, the suggestion that the Overtons had used pepper to discipline the children raised concerns. Now, on October 3, while Andrew was actually still in the hospital, the agency removed Isaac, Isabel, Ali, and Sebastian from their parents’ custody, placing them in two separate foster homes.
The following day, family court judge Carl Lewis awarded temporary custody to Hannah’s mother and stepfather. Larry and Hannah were granted supervised visits. Once reunited with their children, who were terrified by the ordeal, Larry and Hannah had to break the awful news about Andrew. They told the children their new brother had died.
A funeral for Andrew followed at a memorial park, at which Pastor Rod Carver officiated. He and Noreen had recently lost their own son, who had been stillborn. But as he’s talking, he noticed a row of unfamiliar faces. Police officer Hess and a group of CPS workers were standing in the back with dark glasses on, their arms crossed, scowls on their faces.
I think it’s shameful that they were there. Personally, Carver said that it was the most uncomfortable service he’d ever done. It was very tense. By that point, Hannah had completely broken down emotionally. But this is when Hannah became introduced to the world when she and Larry were arrested and led past the bank of TV cameras outside the county jail.
News reports that followed prominently featured the grim-faced mugshots, casting their home as a house of horrors. Even more devastating to Hannah were the actions that CPS took in January. Remember, she was pregnant. So after she gave birth to her daughter Emma, CPS took the newborn into custody. So Hannah’s case went to trial regarding the death of Andrew, August 2007.
Over the course of the three-week-long trial, prosecutor Eastwood tried to convince jurors that a mother with no history of violence or mental illness had force-fed her child to death. Patricia Gonzalez, a nurse at the urgent care clinic, told the jury Hannah had not behaved like a panicked parent.
Apparently, she had a smile on her face. This is while she was performing CPR on the boy. Another nurse, Dina Zapata, remembered Hannah smirking as she tried to resuscitate him. Both women’s accounts were problematic, however. Gonzalez had never made a statement to police and was testifying from memory a year after all the negative coverage she she had seen in the press.
And of course, Zapata also didn’t report anything at the time. Now, there were other witnesses who felt like they had seen signs of abuse. One paramedic recounted how he had seen two sores on Andrew that looked like cigarette burns because they were rounded. Fernandez, the medical examiner, said he had observed burn-like scarring on Andrew’s arm and it had been likely caused by contact with a hot service.
But remember, Larry and Hannah didn’t smoke. Were these the mosquito bites he kept scratching? Thankfully for Hannah, Judy Melinek offered her opinion. She was a medical examiner in San Francisco. She said the sores were consistent with mosquito bites that had been scratched and picked at. And during the trial, the prosecution’s most persuasive testimony came from Dr.
Rotter, the pediatric critical care specialist who had originally expressed concern Andrew had been mistreated. She said there were so many bruises and scratches that it would be difficult to describe them all, but the implication was clear. Hannah had force-fed the boy as punishment and the physician’s testimony carried enormous weight.
Gilmore, the defense attorney, in his closing argument, urged the jury to consider reasonable doubt. He reminded them that no one had witnessed Hannah force-feeding Andrew anything. He pointed to the boy’s history of pica, his compulsive eating behaviors, his access to the kitchen while Hannah was occupied with other children.
Gilmore argued, “He ate things he shouldn’t eat. This is documented. This is not in dispute. He felt, ‘Is it so hard to believe that Hannah’s back was turned and Andrew got into something he shouldn’t have?'” Then the defense attorney attacked the state’s medical evidence, noting the disagreement among experts about whether the injuries on Andrew’s body were consistent with abuse. He emphasized that Dr.
Melinek’s testimony about the mosquito bites and he questioned why, if Hannah had intended to harm Andrew, she would have called for help at all. But Gilmore faced an uphill battle and the prosecution had successfully framed the case in stark terms. To them, either Hannah had force-fed Andrew a lethal amount of salt or the boy had somehow ingested it on his own.
And given Andrew’s age and sheer quantity of sodium in his system, the latter seemed implausible to many. It seemed like she force-fed him. So, the jury deliberated and when they came back on September 17th, 2007, Hannah Overton was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. That is insane. Thankfully, Larry never wavered in his belief in Hannah’s innocence.
He visited her as often as prison regulations allowed. Sometimes making the 6-hour round trip a month. He brought the children to see their mother. Though the visits were painful, the kids had to see Hannah through glass, speaking to her by telephone. They couldn’t hug her, couldn’t feel her arms around them. But then, as Hannah got used to prison, a small group of supporters began to scrutinize the evidence.
The evidence that had convicted her. Among them was Katherine Casey. She was a true crime writer. She also covered the trial. She came away troubled by what she saw. Casey wasn’t alone in her doubts. Several medical experts who reviewed the case raised questions about the prosecution’s theory. Dr. Michael Moritz, a professor at University of Pittsburgh, noted that the sodium level in Andrew’s blood was not inconsistent with the boy having ingested a sodium-rich substance on his own.
Other experts focused on the timeline. See, Andrew had been at the clinic by 5:00 p.m. and had arrived at the hospital shortly after. If Hannah had force-fed him a massive amount of salt, when could she have done it? So, in 2009, 2 years after her conviction, her case caught the attention of the Innocence Project of Texas. They appealed. You had Dr.
Edgar Cortez, who when he looked at Andrew’s medical records, he concluded the boy’s death was accidental rather than intentional. He noted that children with severe behavioral disorders and pica had been documented consuming extraordinary amounts of salt, sometimes with fatal results. So, in 2010, the court of appeals heard the arguments, but the court was unmoved.
The court upheld her conviction, but they didn’t stop there. They persisted. In 2012, the case attracted national attention and she was featured on NBC’s Dateline. Then in 2014, a major breakthrough came when the district attorney’s office under new leadership agreed to take a fresh look. And in April 2014, the DA’s office filed a motion supporting Hannah’s request for a new trial.
In a remarkable reversal, the prosecutors who had once fought to keep Hannah in prison now argued that her conviction should be overturned. So, in 2015, 8 years after her conviction, Hannah walked out of prison. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted her a new trial. And then in September 2015, prosecutors announced they would not retry Hannah.
The medical evidence, they concluded, was too uncertain to support a conviction without a clear understanding of how Andrew had ingested the fatal amount of sodium. The state could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hannah committed a crime. The charges against her were dismissed. Hannah was officially declared innocent of Andrew Burd’s death.
The ruling meant she was eligible for compensation, which would be $80,000 for each year she was in prison. But more importantly, it meant her name was cleared. Wow, what a roller coaster of a story. And my perception of Larry and Hannah, having done so many true crime videos, is I’m sorry, but she is innocent. I mean, she has quite a religious background, right? Very tight-knit community.
She wanted to adopt this child. None of her other children were mistreated or had or had abuse or anything of that nature. So, I don’t think she did anything on purpose. Unless something else has come out about her that I don’t know. One of you guys comment, let me know.
