This update is from Ann Rule's Site: In February of 2002, Brad Cunningham was granted the right to a new trial by the Oregon Court of Appeals. They ruled that some vital testimony by Cheryl Keeton's mother, Betty Troseth, in his 1994 trial was to be considered hearsay. This ruling threw out the shocking testimony about Cheryl's last phone calls an hour before she was murdered, calls in which she told her mother that she was going to meet Brad to retrieve her sons from a court-ordered visit. Even though Cheryl's battered body was found an hour later, close to the gas station where she intended to meet Brad, her last cry for help is now considered to be only hearsay. In a stunning ruling, the Court of Appeals did not find Cheryl's calls to be "excited utterances" or a death bed statement. The Oregon Attorney General's Office, the Washington County District Attorney, Cheryl's law firm of Garvey, Schubert, and many others are fighting to prevent a re-trial for Cunningham. He remains in prison, and he will be locked up if and when he becomes the defendant in another murder trial. Whether he will choose to represent himself again is a question. If he should go to trial for murder again, and should he be acquitted of Cheryl's murder, he will walk free. Most Oregon residents are unaware of the Appeals' court's ruling. Cheryl's and Brad's three sons have grown up into fine young men, cherished by their "adopted" mother, Sara. The two older boys have finished college, and the youngest is in high school. from movies based on true stories database by Traciy Curry-Reyes