Timothy Evans received a posthumous pardon in 1966 for the murder of his daughter.
Certainly the murder of Saitoh and his daughter could have been a mistake.
The film is based on a true story about an Indiana woman who in 1965 was charged with the murder of her neighbor's daughter.
"I have come to confess to the murder of my daughter."
"It's a sad thing that no one was ever indicted for the murder of Sally's daughter."
"How soon was this after the murder of her daughter?"
She would never have covered up the murder of her own daughter out of love for some man.
"The only reason she wanted to meet with the stalker was to rule him out as a possible suspect in the murder of her daughter."
My sense is that she had no reason- to go on living after the murder of her daughter.
Patti returned partially to bring closure to the murder of her daughter, Sarah.