Stephanie Avola

I couldn't understand it. I didn't understand why we were all there together. Just everything about it was so wrong. So many people wanted to just comfort us and want to comfort Monica.

How you would continue to live in a home with two young girls after a home invasion that murdered your husband, that your daughter found. Who would want to live in that house? Just never made sense.

She adored him just the same. I can remember so many times them singing together, doing karaoke together. Merry Christmas, everybody! Just, like, really enjoying each other, and they were beautiful together.

Maybe we're gonna get hit. Maybe this is something personal. We had locks, additional locks put on all of our doors. We bought all of this stuff to cover our windows that people couldn't see inside our house. I was terrified.