In fact, Katie's Law is named after Katie Sepich, a 22-year old college student whose killer Martinez prosecuted and convicted.

Ironically, Wyler, a former assistant district attorney, had prosecuted Tommy's killer (Robert LaSardo).

The criticism stung all the more because it was Dillon's office that had prosecuted her husband's killer.

The chief of the family court division of the city's law department, which is prosecuting Queen's young killer, said that an attempt to find meaning in a case like hers was doomed to fail.