Sorry to respond to my own post...but I figured it out. The murdered Florida mom was Niccole Halpin. Here's a link to a story about the case in case anyone is curious about it:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IFQFpEMsLzkJ:www.sptimes.com/2005/01/09/Northpinellas/A_light_in_darkness.shtm
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SAFETY HARBOR - Drew Halpin sat in a darkened theater watching
Finding Neverland, the story of J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. Drew pulled his shirt up over his head and began to sob, tears soaking the fabric.
"What's wrong?" his father, Don, asked, reaching over to hug him.
"It isn't fair," the 8-year-old insisted. "Tinkerbell can come back to life, but my mom can't."
One year ago this weekend, his mother, Niccole Halpin, was beaten to death in her bedroom by a masked intruder. Drew and his brother, Max, who witnessed the attack but escaped injury, defiantly call her killer the Coward. Memories of the man, who remains at large, continue to haunt them.
Max, 10, curls up each night in his father's king-sized bed, too scared to sleep alone. The boy approaches strangers at playgrounds or at the grocery store to tell them, "The Coward killed my mum."
The boys have been reunited with their father, Don Halpin, 51, who divorced Niccole about a year and a half before the attack. And they have moved back into the same home at 15 Clearview Drive where their 32-year-old mother was murdered.