You must have found more than I was able to find. The posts I found made me think that the husband had been grilled like a cheeseburger and cleared but that they aren't allowed to publicly say that.
It was just her wording when referring to who was missing that came off as odd to me as well as stating that his heart was broken. I don't know if that is what she meant to imply in her defense of her nephew. She might just have trying to defend him and it came out that way.