Shepard, 29, was sentenced to spend between five years and the rest of her life in prison on charges of first-degree felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and second-degree felony manslaughter...
But for Marilee Nelson and Tonya Willprecht, family friends of Harms from Minnesota, the sentence was not enough... Each said they had offered to care for Harms before Shepard moved from Aberdeen, S.D., to Utah in 2010, but Shepard refused...
After Shepard and Harms moved to Utah in May 2010, the women lost all contact.