In Monday's story, reporter Corina Knoll follows Jan Williams and chronicles the devastation she's experienced following the killings and the toll the court room hours has taken on her life. Elisa Baker has her online lover/husband and his young daughter move from Australia to North Carolina to be with her. Elisa takes delight in torturing her stepdaughter Zahra, who earlier survived bone cancer that left her almost deaf and took one of her legs. Zahra eventually dies and Elisa dismembers her body. Della Sutorius comes off as a sweet, charming and beautiful woman to the men who fall in love with her, but her true colors come out after the weddings. She turns out to be a greedy, violent monster whose five husbands end up either on-the-run, abused, or (in the last husband's case) murdered for money. Sandy Cain ditches her life in New York to be with a bounty hunter husband named Frank in Las Vegas, whom she meets over the Internet. However, after they marry, Frank is revealed to be manipulator who gave Sandy nothing she had been hoping for. Feeling fed up due to his betrayal, she shoots him and tries to save herself by trying to make it look like a self-defense attempt gone wrong. A mother pays witness to son, grandchildren’s murder during trial of killer, former daughter-in-law A judge sentenced Manling Tsang Williams to death Thursday for smothering her two young children with a pillow and slashing her husband to death with a sword in the family’s Rowland Heights home in 2007. Sheriff’s deputies found Neal’s body at the top of the stairs of the two-bedroom home. The coroner’s report would reveal that the 27-year-old had been stabbed more than 90 times. Blood pooled around him and saturated the carpet. The murder weapon, a samurai sword, was found close by.

Defense attorneys for Williams argued that their client still has value to her family, friends and society despite being convicted of murdering her family. She added, “This has had a terrible impact, not just on me and my family, on the Tsang family, but everyone involved.”Practically speaking, for the family of the victim, if she got life or death, it probably wouldn’t be over in my lifetime,” she said. “Best way would have been a plea bargain for life without parole. No trial, no pain, no dragged-out appeals process.”

We hear something dreadful every day,” she said. “It might not even be something meaningful to the public, but it is to us. Some little thing that was Neal or Devon’s. Something that was said that was totally out of character.” Manling Williams sentenced to death for murder of husband, sons in Rowland Heights Frequently Asked Questions Manling Tsang Williams Photos Manling Tsang Williams Women On Death Row Manling Tsang Williams Women On Death Row Manling Tsang Williams Women On Death Row Jan walked out of the small courtroom last Tuesday morning, her face somber, blue eyes dull. She had heard of the prosecutors’ plans earlier but hoped they might change their mind. They didn’t. They said they believed the crimes merited the death penalty.We have a motive where a defendant wants to be single ... but you think to yourself `is that really a reason for a person to kill and slash her husband and suffocate her kids?"' Okun-Wiese said. "This may be something you never wrap your fingers around." Althaus said the majority of the prosecution's case was based on circumstantial evidence and assumptions. On June 15, 1990, 9-year-old Autumn Wallace was stabbed to death. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Alfaro, an acquaintance of the family, robbed the house for drug money, and killed Wallace so she would not be identified.

Interestingly, when detectives finally got around to questioning John Gregory, he initially denied the affair. Nevertheless, his conscience got the better of him, and Gregory finally told the police how Manling had reached out to him. As per the authorities, the extra-marital affair gave Manling a motive for murder. Thus, the police wasted no time arresting and charging her for the crime. Where Is Manling Williams Now? The second death penalty trial came to a close on Tuesday as the prosecution and defense made closing statements. The jury then went into deliberation in the late afternoon. This is their tragedy too,” Jan said. “I don’t blame them for anything. I was sitting there, watching them at court, and I think they are there for the same reason: they have a need to know. What your child went through, what your grandchildren went through.” Defense attorney Tom Althaus, who made the final statements Monday, said the defense wasn't trying to justify the murders.

In 2001, Manling and Neal married at a courthouse. Later, they had a big wedding at a Taiwanese church. The couple moved to Rowland Heights, and their second son, Ian, was born in fall 2003. She was found guilty and sentenced to death, with her motive for the murders being so she could be with her lover. Some friends and family members have become distant, unable to understand why she can’t move on. Instead she pours out her emotions on her blog, Grief’s Journey. My worst nightmares have always been those in which events happen over and over again, but no matter what you try, you can’t change the outcome. My waking life is starting to feel like that, too. When the police arrived at the Williams home on August 7, 2007, they found Neal’s wife crying inconsolably outside. Upon entering the house, detectives came across Neal’s deceased body and discovered that he was slashed multiple times with a sword from his collection. Further inside, the police also located the two children and pronounced them dead.