Alaina Urquhart

Having been convicted of killing a man that she claimed had been abusive and violently sexually assaulting her, she seemed an ideal spokesperson for the movement at this point in time.

Yeah.

And she quickly became a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.

In 1994, she actually appeared in a documentary about domestic violence, and she described the night of the murder.

This is her words.

She said,

Wow.

So the description that she gave in the documentary was pretty much the same one that she gave to police on the night of the murder.

And it does, but it doesn't account for any of the inconsistencies that resulted in her conviction.

But the producers didn't really raise any questions.

So it got out there.

But after a few years on the lecture circuit, she moved to Florida in 2000.

And she found a place to live in Christian Retreat.

Among the community leaders was Robert Friedrich.

He was an 81-year-old retired electrical engineer who had lost his wife of 53 years, Mary, earlier that same year.

His son Dennis told a reporter in 2005, dad was the proud stoic German type.

And he was referring to his father's tendency to keep his feelings to himself.

He said, we didn't know how lost he really was, which is just heartbreaking.

So to fill his time and occupy his mind, Robert threw himself into volunteering with the church, which is where he met Melissa Ann Shepard.

In 2012, Melissa told reporters, The Holy Spirit told me this man would be my next husband.