Why not go back and amend your hypothetical and THEN ask them who they think is most likely to know something about their missing friend? I suspect you will get a very different answer.
BTW, are you a defense attorney?
OK, so PROVE that she did it.
Its not like OJ. They had blood evidence. They had a series of documented police reports where he abused his wife.
They had nothing here.
No proof of abuse. Just pictures and movies and testimony of her being a good mom.
They could not link her with a cause of death.
There is no proof of premeditated murder.
There is no proof of aggravated abuse.
There is no proof of aggravated manslaughter.
They did not put manslaughter (regular “I shook the kid to death” manslaughter) on the table. I think if they did, they would have gotten a conviction.
Accepting the verdict of a jury is the best way to get this done. Accept that mistakes are made. Accept that the prosecution made mistakes. Accept that sometimes we might “know” but we cannot prove.