The mother of two children killed in the Monroe County tragedy has sued the woman who was arrested after police say she was driving drunk and plowed into a birthday party at a boat club.

Mariah Dodds testified in Monroe County Circuit Court that she heard her sister crying next to her and asked why she was in a hospital room. She learned there had been an accident and wondered how ...

Marshella Chidester stared forward blankly in Monroe County’s district court as Raquel Smouthers, in sobs, recalled the moment she told her sister Mariah Dodds in the hospital that Dodds’ two ...

two counts of operating under the influence of liquor causing death and four counts of OUIL causing serious injury. Mariah Dodds testified in Chidester's trial on March 4, 2025.