There are continuances, and a change of defense counsel in the ninth month, and four hearings on motions to suppress that Margaret drove down for and sat through and that lasted, in one case, eleven minutes.

She went to every one of them.

She carried a blue folder — the same one, until it fell apart and she bought another blue one — and a photograph of Emily in her purse, taken at a barbecue in 2021, in which her daughter is laughing at something with her head back.

She never spoke to the press.

There was some.

Not as much as people imagine; a woman killed by her husband is not, unfortunately, an unusual enough event to hold a news cycle.