Michael Tantillo

Figuring it out, though, the jury actually deliberated a total of only just about four hours or a little bit more than four hours. So that suggests to us that they felt the case was pretty strong and probably moved toward a verdict, the verdict that they returned pretty quickly. Obviously, the work of Rodney Miller was fantastic, and I think Sylvia is right.

This case may not have been solved without his doggedness. A lot of that is also due to the Chase family because they are the people that kept the pressure up on Rose Chase, and I think... set up her state of mind when she actually gave this all up in December. And I don't think that would have happened without the Chase family keeping the pressure on the way that they did.

I'm generally pleased with the sentencing. To be perfectly honest, I would have liked to have seen the maximum sentence, but what Judge Coker gave her was pretty close to the max, so I have no quarrels with that.

Every case is unique, and this case certainly had a lot of unique aspects to it, particularly including how long the body was hidden by the defendant and what she did to ultimately destroy the body and try to cover her tracks on this thing. To me, I think the crime, the homicide, the murder itself is awful and it's heinous and it deserves everything that the judge gave her.

But to put the family of Adam Chase through what she did for six solid months after that just makes it that much worse. So there really is a lot of depravity involved. Her statements to the court, did you understand perhaps where they were coming from at all? Not in the slightest. I thought that was one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard a defendant say to a judge at sentencing.

It's remarkable for the fact that there was certainly no apology in there, certainly no acknowledgement of what she has done to this family.