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Billings' daughter to talk to Oprah

Updated: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 6:46 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 6:26 PM CDT

All it took was a moment for Ashley Markham's life to change forever. Nine of her brothers and sisters with special needs were home, when her parents were murdered.

"She wasn't a mother before this, and now she's a mother of nine," family attorney Robert Beasley said.

Markham, her husband Blue, and their attorney Robert Beasley are flying out to Chicago Thursday night, to tell Oprah their story. The show will focus on how someone's life can change in a moment. That's one of the reasons they agreed to the interview.

"They came right out and said this isn't about murders. We aren't going to try and solve murders, not about who did what, the reasons. This is about mission of your parents what they were doing. It's about you're mission of stepping up, about that story," Beasley said.

The furthest any media outlets have been able to go is by the gates outside the home. Oprah's crew got to go inside, to see what a normal day is like for the family.

"We couldn't do big cameras, big lights. They scaled it way down, there was an agreement what rooms they could set up in, what rooms they could be in," added Beasley.

Beasley says there were strict boundaries about what could be shown. He said Oprah's crew was able to capture the family's daily life, without harming the children.

"These children more than others need routine, stability. They reacted great, they treated the film crew as a guest, played with them, interacted with them," he said.

On Thursday, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan will also do an interview with Oprah from his office. The show will air next week.

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  • Billings Evidence Document

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