Beth Shelburne

That seems like a lot of pressure to put on someone.

So I look at you and I say, look, you can either be a witness or you can be a defendant.

It's up to you.

And that's the truth.

What if the person is neither a witness nor a defendant in the case, though?

But for LaTanya, there was never an OK, I got you from investigators.

Even though she explains she doesn't know anything about the crime, detectives follow through with their threat and make her a defendant.

One month after Tony Richardson questions LaTanya, the state charges her with hindering prosecution.

In Alabama, that's a felony.

At 16 years old, police take LaTanya Henderson to adult jail, where she stays for five months.

This is Derek Drennan, a lawyer who worked with Richard Jaffe in representing Ardragus Ford.

A few years later, LaTanya says that she was hysterical when they took her to jail, desperate to get detectives to believe her.

She says that she suffered from stress and lost too much weight.

I really wanted to talk to LaTanya, to hear how this experience shaped her.

And we tried for months to track her down, knocking on doors, calling possible numbers, combing social media, but we never could connect.

I was able to talk to her uncle, Herman Henderson, a pastor in Birmingham.

He told me LaTanya and Yolanda had been friends since they were babies, but this case ended their friendship, and LaTanya was scarred by the entire experience.

Her trust in other people eroded.

Yolanda Chambers and LaTanya Henderson made different choices when faced with threats from police.

There's a damned if you do, damned if you don't dynamic in how they were each impacted.