Sarah Koenig

About Hay, I can tell you only what I've heard from non-family members.

That she was cheerful and light and funny.

That she loved the movie Titanic.

That she sometimes put nail polish on just so she could pick it off.

She wasn't insecure, seemingly ever.

Sprite was her favorite soda.

The Dallas Cowboys her favorite team, not because she cared about football, but because she liked the colors blue and silver.

That she could charm you without trying.

That she was a good friend to her friends.

She took in their problems and their pain and tried to help them if she could.

At the sentencing, listening to Hay's mother, that was the first time a nun understood how people on Hay's side of the courtroom saw him.

He'd never felt hated before.

In his June 14, 2000, letter to Krista, he writes, quote, on the one hand, I feel her pain because I cared about Hay and how sad she is.

But on the other, I'm thinking, please believe me, I didn't kill your daughter.

She was sitting right next to me, and it was really sad, but I couldn't help thinking that my mom is going through the exact same thing.

She's going to lose her son forever.

Afterwards, I was thinking, my God, no one believes in me.

Krista, I could never explain how that felt.

Anand's attorney then addresses the court.

Quote, your honor, I would ask that this honorable court, if it would consider this case more a crime of passion than of intent to kill, unquote.