“There's no way to really prepare for it, you go in, you sit down, you see both sides, you're sitting there with them,” said Terry. “It's emotionally draining, it's extremely hard to sit that close... You never know, what's gonna be said, you never know how people are gonna react, I don't think you can fully prepare for it, other than try to hold onto your faith that, that you're gonna get through it.”
“It's like being in limbo, you can't grieve,” Debbi said. “Heather's not here, so you can grieve that... but you don't know why, you don't know where, you don't have any answers at all, as to what happened, where she is, there's no place to go,” she added.
Their only hope beyond a bond denial, is answers. “If using this hearing to get Heather's face out there again and to put her name out there in the public again, if that helps, in any way, then maybe something good can come of this hearing,” Debbi said.
