It could be something like; "I know I am healthy, but I really would like to die the slowest most painful death you can think of, not even a drop of water to moisten my lips. It might take two weeks but I will hold out so you can hold me in your 'loving' arms at the end, with your pals so they can have fun watching. Be sure to block my own family from comforting me."
Yes! Yes! That is EXACTLY what the step-father remembered Haleigh saying in a casual conversation when she was 4. He had forgotten it for eight years, but remembered just barely in time for his date in court. His lawyer helped him.
The judge says, convivially, "I believe you, but the law says that I need more than your word for this. Did anybody else hear Haleigh say she wants to die a drawn-out, sadistic, horrifying death after being beaten, burned with cigarettes, scalded in hot water, molested, burned with acid, and smashed repeatedly with a baseball bat?"
Lo! That afternoon, two in-laws of friends of cousins of DSS workers -- in affidavits hastily wired from the Maldive Islands -- said that they too had heard Haleigh beg for the cruellest death possible.
"Done!" said the judge, flashing his trademark boyish smile. "I rule that this is 'CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE' that Haleigh personally handed the baseball bat to her stepdad and pointed to spots where she wanted to be clubbed."