Scott Richardson

With the possibility that Skylar's own words will be her undoing, her family wondered if they made a tragic mistake by not accepting the deal they were offered.

But does that scare the two of you?

Yes.

Absolutely.

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For more than two years, Skylar Richardson and her family have been bracing for her trial.

The stress and uncertainty have taken a toll.

Skylar, still battling an eating disorder, is virtually wasting away.

How's Skylar?

But what doctors say is an illness, the state characterizes as vanity.

Prosecutor Stephen Knipping quotes from a text Skylar sent her mom just hours after giving birth.

And there's this selfie that Skylar took at the gym that same afternoon.

Prosecutors admit they cannot prove the baby was born alive, but Knippen tells the jury that Schuyler herself admitted it.

She also told investigators that she might have held her baby, quote, too tight, and that's not all.

But defense attorney Charlie M. Ricker says Schuyler just told the police what they wanted to hear.

The state calls Dr. Susan Brown, the assistant Warren County coroner who performed the autopsy on the baby's remains.

Yes.

Homicidal violence of undetermined etiology.

But when cross-examined by the defense, Dr. Brown concedes there's no physical evidence that Schuyler killed her baby or that the baby was even born alive.