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Bea Lunardini/Fresh Take Florida

  • Maranda Malnory, 29, of Cape Coral, Fla., poses with her dog, Nilla Bean. Malnory is the daughter of a married couple who were murdered by James Ford, who Florida executed earlier this month. In a new interview, she says the first good night's sleep for her in years came the night Ford was executed. (Courtesy photos from Maranda Malnory/Fresh Take Florida)
    Crime
    ‘I grieve what I could have had,’ says daughter of murdered couple after killer’s execution
    Bea Lunardini/Fresh Take Florida
    The first good night's sleep in years for the daughter of a murdered couple came the night Florida executed her parents' killer earlier this month, she says in a new interview.“There’s a weight that’s been lifted off of us,” said Maranda Malnory, 29, of Cape Coral, in a phone conversation from her home. “We can move forward. We’re never going to move past it, but it’s not looming there all the time.”Malnory, 29, was less than one month away from her 2nd birthday when James Ford murdered her parents, Greg and Kim Malnory, in rural Charlotte County in southwest Florida. Malnory was left to the elements in a car seat in her father’s blue pickup after her parents’ murders, and police found her and her parents’ bodies the next morning.