Beth Shelburne

I'm sorry to just show up unannounced, but we didn't have that number for you.

I understand, because when that happened, I was living in Birmingham.

But forgive me.

Rosa lets us into her tidy apartment.

There's a painted wooden sign on the wall that says, there is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

And a paper program from Yolanda's funeral sits on the coffee table next to framed family photos.

Well, I appreciate you letting us in, just us showing up unannounced.

But we're, like I said, working on a project about Deputy Bill Hardy's murder.

And so we were just reaching out to people that knew him and wondered, you know, if you could share anything about him that you knew, y'all's relationship.

Well, I met him through his wife, Diane.

Even though Rosa and Deputy Bill Hardy share a last name, they aren't related.

Patricia Diane Hardy is Bill Hardy's widow.

Rosa sometimes refers to her as Pat, but mostly calls her Diane.

Diane and all of us, we grew up together in Selma because her mom used to do our hair.

My mother had three girls and three boys, and her mother, Miss Bailey, she did our hair every two weeks.

So we were friends.

Rosa and Patricia both eventually moved to Birmingham, where Patricia marries Bill Hardy.

and they all remain close friends.

I did not talk all the time on the phone.

But after that happened and Yolanda was involved, she kind of shied away from me.