Latisha McMillen stood in the doorway of the crowded closet she shared with her husband and put her face into a folded white t-shirt. She took a deep breath into the fabric, then sighed and put it back on a stack of shoeboxes. She kicked another, empty box.

“These had the shoes he died in,” she said that day. “I’m waiting for (the morgue) to give them back.”

Eric McMillen’s black and grey sneakers with orange accents and leopard print laces never did get returned. Latisha McMillen couldn’t stand to look at her own matching pair, which sat untouched in their closet.

But getting dressed Monday morning, Latisha felt the need to wear them to court, where her husband’s alleged killer — a longtime friend of the family who had been dating their youngest daughter — was set to come before a jud

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