chilly march evening when virginia russell was driving home from a party with her boyfriend, rodney hartman. the couple had been dating for three years and were talking about getting married, but on this night, tragedy struck. >> look out! >> she was thrown from the car. the car flipped like eight times, and they were both ejected from the car. >> when an ambulance arrived, they pronounced rodney hartman dead at the scene. virginia was rushed to the hospital. for 48 hours, virginia hovered between life and death, but she survived. toxicology tests showed virginia had a blood alcohol level of 0.16, almost twice the legal limit. >> they had charged her with the felony dui. >> virginia was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for vehicular homicide. >> it was hard enough that she had lost somebody in her life, and then to be doing time for it and be taken away from her family again, i mean, it was a very difficult time for virginia. >> when virginia was released from prison, she told her family she found work cleaning houses. one evening, while spending time with her family, virginia