Loretta Kay Carr, 45 — Kelly’s mother — is also charged with capital murder in Isbell’s death. She remained in Dekalb County Jail with no bond on Thursday. According to the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office, the pair are deliberately being held in separate locations ahead of trial.

“I ask that the court to please take these letters in consideration on my behalf of who I am, rather than just what I’m being portrayed in black and white,” Kelly wrote in a letter to a judge dated Feb. 7.

At the time of her mother’s arrest in June, Kelly was in custody in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to Missouri on a felony theft charge, according to a Dekalb County sheriff’s spokesperson. She was extradited to Alabama in July.