Lisette Bowers

When we were at the Airbnb, he got a call. He was going to be arrested.

I was confident they had the wrong man.

We stayed so close. We were just connected at the hip and made agreements to never go anywhere without one another.

They've told us he's coming home tomorrow, and Holly says, I'm going. She's holding her suitcase, and she goes, I'm going, I'm leaving. I'm going home. But the day before Andrew gets home, why are you choosing now? during this scary, scary time in his life. She'd already ordered her Uber and never came back.

He said, you know, Mom, I'm going to plead guilty. So I immediately said, well, Andrew, you're not going to plead guilty to anything you didn't do, because clearly he didn't murder her, in my mind, because that's out of character and not who he is, and it was stupidly done, and he's not stupid. So it never was him.

I have physically... dropped to my knees, sometimes feeling like I've gotten punched in the stomach. And I have to tell myself, I have to tell myself that that was a moment, a heinous, awful, out of character, broken moment.

I think Holly is wicked. I think she's wicked to the core that she would ever want this to happen to another woman, to a mother, to a mother of the child that she had come to love.

He killed someone. And that is beyond awful. It's the worst thing anyone can do. But that's not who I love.

My son, Andrew Beard, is a loving, warm individual who always operated from his heart, from his core center. When he had Willow, She was constantly strapped to the front of him. He was reading to her. He wanted her to see the whole world every day. He just felt that he could provide her more stability.

I adored her from minute one. She just has this charm and energy. I warmed to her very quickly.