"I don't regret anything I've said": Misty Noel speaks out in first interview since prison
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Misty Noel has had ten months to think.
Ten months inside Indiana's correctional system- away from her daughters, away from her newborn granddaughter, and away from the community that watched her family's implosion play out on Court TV and on local news.
She's out now. She's changed her name. And she's ready to talk- though carefully, and with one eye still on the judge who sentenced her.
"I have to be very careful of how I speak about the case," she said, settling into our conversation just four days after her release from Madison Correctional Facility. "He's overseeing my probation. I don't want to make him mad again."
It was the first of many moments in this interview where the woman once known as the wife of Clark County's most powerful man would reveal just how much has changed- and how much hasn't.
She's not Misty Noel anymore
The first thing she wanted to establish: the name.
