Keith Morrison

When I spoke to Wendy, her eyes lit up when she talked about Chris.

You still soulmates?

All of this was, what, trumped up?

All of this is a huge mess that neither one of us would have ever wanted Nancy harmed.

The jury, of course, saw things differently.

On the day Chris Latham was sentenced, the judge gave him the maximum for the single count of aiding and abetting, 10 years, a $1,500 fine, plus three years of supervised release.

At Wendy's sentencing, the judge handed down sentences on her four guilty verdicts that could be served concurrently.

That meant Wendy would be behind bars for 15 years.

After that, three years of supervised release.

When the gavel came down for the last time in August 2014, it had been almost exactly three years since that night on the lake when Chris Latham told Nancy he didn't want to be married anymore to her.

For Nancy, at least, that big and turbulent chapter of her life was over.

Now the question was, what's next?

It's sort of this liberating thing that has happened to me.

Liberating, of course, is not exactly a word Wendy and Chris would have used in that moment to describe their futures.

It's like a horrible nightmare that you cannot wake up from.

The love affair that entangled their lives was about to be put to the test in prison.

Picture this.

It's a dark winter day in February 2022.

Valentine's Day, perhaps?

A middle-aged woman sits alone at her computer, her slender fingers moving rapidly over the keyboard.