"My husband has been on my case all day every day about why we said Mrs. Killpack was guilty," she said. "He knew my feelings going in; I had never intended to say 'guilty.' I thought there would be extenuating circumstances. But it came down to reasonable care. It's not reasonable to force food or water on a child, and we just followed the evidence."

Two of the jurors were from Provo, two from Orem and two from Spanish Fork. One was from Santaquin and one from Elk Ridge. They began their deliberations with prayer, though they represented different faiths.

The bottom line, several mentioned, was the same as what they'd heard from jurors in the highly publicized acquittals of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson. They thought Richard Killpack was guilty, but they didn't have the evidence under the law to return a guilty verdict.

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