carl's girlfriend, lillian king, had admitted her involvement.ighter sentences. prosecutor sonny mcafee felt confident that he had a solid case against bruce. >> the facts of the crime were so horrendous. i didn't think once the jury believed that he was party to the crime that he have any difficulty at all finding him guilty. >> lillian told the jury she had hold bruce harkey and carl pressly talk about killing bonnie harkey many times. she told us she didn't learn the plot had actually been set in motion until the friday before the murder. that's when lillian says she overheard a phone conversation between bruce harkey and carl pressly. >> after he got off the phone with bruce, he looked at me and said that bruce was going to pay him to kill his grandmother. >> lillian testified that while bonnie and her caretaker were in church that sunday morning, carl slipped into the house and head. once bonnie returned home, carl sent her a text, telling her to come distract karen johnson while he smothered his grandmother. >> so i rang the doorbell becaus