What's been going on in Marion County?

Why murder of course!

Well, a murder trial...that's come to an end.

Seems like a wife got pissed off at hubby and step-dad; so she burned them alive.

These things happen, of course.

I mean, she had one hell of a sob story that could just about break a jury's heart. And maybe let her go.

Just one problem....her mouth. Well, her mouth and who she opened it up for.

Decker confessed the murders to jail officials in Connecticut after she was arrested there in March 2002 on a charge of crack cocaine possession. After that, Decker gave two videotaped statements - one to Marion County Sheriff's detectives and one to WESH Channel 2 reporter Steven Stock - in which she confessed to setting the fire by igniting a couch with a lighter. After that, she wrote three letters to the State Attorney's Office containing similar admissions. Decker recanted those confessions in another letter sent to prosecutors in August 2005.

She seems like a real good talker. Maybe she should have listened more.

And of course...

Decker's attorneys argued that her confessions shouldn't have any weight because she is mentally ill. She had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, crack cocaine addiction and borderline personality disorder. Her attorneys also built their defense around the fact that the cause of the fire was not officially ruled as arson, but instead was classified as "undetermined."

Lawyers. You gotta love them. However...

But Jack Ward, a fire investigations expert called to the stand by prosecutors, said he believed the fire was started by an open flame applied to a couch, the very method that Decker had given in her previous confessions.

Oops!