i didn't want to see the body. >> a month later shanoltzer was arrested for murder. charge was eventually reduced to accessory after the fact. she pled guilty and served a 16-month sentence at the orange county jail. >> why would you run back with that gang in the first place? >> my children's father was one of their friends. just start hanging out with all of his friends. and all his friends treated me like i was the princess, and i had troubles when i was going through school being made fun of. their nickname was julie germs. and all of it coincided when i was finally mrs. popular. and i was popular for once. with the wrong people. a child is born to us. son is give on the us and he will be our ruler. he are be the wonderful counselor, mighty god, prince of peace. but the angels said to him -- >> shanholtzer's -- did not end. she testified against one of the gang members. now she fears if she has to serve her six years in state prison her life will be in jeopardy. >> those people are not nice people. they're murders. and it's not just one. it's multiple people. and

. >> but shanoltzer said she had taken her recovery into her own hands. >> i got clean and sober.ot my first job. a member of my church. i'm learning how to drive. i'm 30 years old. i don't know how to drive. i'm going to school and i'm doing everything i can, and i finally got sick and tired of being on the run. so i turned myself in. i turned myself in with 36 members of my church with me, and i still got six years. >> shanholtzer's latest troubles paled in comparison to some of her past run-ins with the law. in her early 20s she befriended members of a notorious street gang. >> i hooked up with them because i did drugs. and you do drugs you meet all kinds of walks of life. >> so you weren't in the gang? >> no. >> you were just doing drugs? >> dating a couple of them. >> one night some of her friends from the gang told her to take a ride with them in the truck, in the back was one of their victims, a decomposing 3-day-old corpse. shanholtzer says she was used as a prop to make others in the truck look less suspicious. >> i was asked to get in the truck because i don't have tatto