“There are only two people who know what happened … one of whom is still making false statements about it,” she said.

Jerry Watson, the victim’s uncle, recalled a family trip to Glacier National Park, but said the family could no longer return to enjoy the magnificent beauty. Graham had turned the national treasure into “a gravesite,” he said.

“Although the hanging tree is no longer acceptable in this society … neither is murder,” he said.

Though the family didn’t get the sentence they were seeking, they said they are content Graham is now serving time behind bars. Sherry Johnson and her siblings stopped to talk to the media briefly following the hearing. The heartbroken mother said she has some closure after being able to address Molloy and the court.

“We still don’t know the real truth of what happened,” Celeste Watson said, speaking for her sister-in-law. “But we have to accept what went on here today and move forward.”

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In his pre-sentencing remarks, Molloy said Graham is a dishonest person who showed little remorse for killing her husband and has been “impervious to the human consequences of what she did.”