Rhoni reuters biography

For many from the Chicago area, Oct. 4, , began with the stunning news that Rhoni Reuter, the longtime pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bears player Shaun Gayle, had been murdered.

Now Reuter’s convicted killer hopes she'll be granted a new trial and is speaking out about her case for the first time on television.

“I did not [kill Reuter], and I am not capable of doing anything like [that].

I'm a mother myself, that's unconscionable to me. Absolutely not,” Marni Yang, a year-old mother of three, told ABC's Juju Chang in a recent interview for "20/"

Reuter, 42, was seven months pregnant when she was found dead on the kitchen floor of her apartment in Deerfield, Illinois.

There were no signs of robbery or forced entry at the crime scene. Authorities said she had been shot multiple times at point-blank range with a 9mm handgun, with two shots fir