Take a look at Ms. Mallard. She's neither attractive nor sympathetic. The victim was a homeless man with few friends or relatives to interview endlessly.
There are no high-profile attorneys representing this woman or the victim.
Think of the backlash that would come from creeps like Leo Terrell and Jesse Jerkson if there were endless shows demonizing Ms. Mallard.
Think if the races and genders of the victim and perp had been reversed.
..."Brandon Glenn Biggs, whose father, Gregory Glenn Biggs, died in the accident, said he held no animosity toward Mallard. The 19-year-old high school senior, who learned the details of his father's death while at school ... said he would like to meet with Chante Mallard. "I'd just like to talk to her. Just ask questions and see why, to get a better understanding I suppose," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Albany, about 35 miles northeast of Abilene."I'm not angry at her. I pray for her actually."Star Telegram
According to the affidavit, Mallard told the women(at a party) that she waited a couple of days for Biggs to die before two male friends removed his body and dumped it in Cobb Park. She said she planned to burn the car and buy a new one after she received her income tax refund, the affidavit says.
Two of Mallard's friends, Clete Deneal Jackson and Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, have pleaded guilty to tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. They were sentenced to 10 years and nine years in prison, respectively, and are expected to testify against Mallard.