Margaret spent them in a corridor with her sister Linda, and on the second afternoon she went and sat in a stairwell and did something she had not done since the day of the funeral, which was talk out loud to her daughter.

The verdict came back on a Friday at 3:20 in the afternoon.

Guilty of murder in the first degree, with a special circumstance for financial gain.

Guilty of two counts of forgery.

Guilty of insurance fraud.

Margaret did not smile.