Barbara McDonald Court TV:
Sentencing 20, December.
Somber court room. Abby and Libby’s family already in there by the time media entered.
2:19 jury entered an made eye contact with no one. Looked weary. Room absolutely quiet.
At moment of guilty verdict wife and mother began sobbing. People sitting around them hugged and held them.
Abby and Libby’s family members cried, others remained stone faced.
Richard Allen’s family left first. Some members of the girls’ families stayed to hug prosecutors and law enforcement. Subdued celebration.