Susan Spencer (48 Hours correspondent)

I come from a small town.

The mystery of what really went on here in this middle-class house in Antwerp, Ohio, is at the heart of an unspeakable crime.

A beloved father lies dead.

His daughter, Mindy, a high school cheerleader, is in jail, awaiting trial for killing him in cold blood.

I had said before, you know, out of anger, I could kill him.

And I didn't.

So packing up at her Indianapolis home.

We'll get up there tonight.

I'll take Mindy her clothes.

Mindy's mother, Shirley Bereni, is preparing for the fight of her life.

Court starts tomorrow morning.

She'll be taking the stand at her daughter's murder trial to explain what happened.

To a father-daughter relationship that had once seemed magic.

Shirley met her future husband, mechanic Andy Barreni, in high school.

They married just six weeks later, when Shirley learned she was pregnant with another man's child.

You must have felt like he was rescuing you.

Well, basically.

But after 15 years and three children, the marriage fell apart.

I truly believe, deep down, he loved us.

He just didn't know how at all.