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NASHVILLE ( WTVF ) -- Mindy Dodd was nowhere near the crime scene in 1999. Yet she ended up with a longer sentence than the convicted killer.

"I was at work the night my co-defendant killed the victim," Dodd testified to the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee.

Dodd was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to murder her husband, Henry Dodd, who was also her stepfather. She told lawmakers that Todd had sexually abused her from a young age and had threatened her mother to divorce him so he could marry Mindy.

So how did Mindy “conspire” to kill her husband? Her nephew, James Smallwood—the man who actually killed Henry—had told Mindy he wanted to commit the murder, and she didn’t alert authorities. "Survivors like me should not be serving life

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