report. they left the courtroom for the first time so they would not have to look at the nine graphic photographs of their daughter. the defendant s mother and sister left the courtroom. her father stayed and listened. she was behind the video display that faced the jury. she sometimes closed her eyes or stared straight ahead, showing no emotion. during the autopsy, she identified at least 331 wounds on the victim. 100 of them, defensive wounds as murray tried to fend off blows from her attacker. she was alive throughout all of this until the last strike of the knife. at least five weapons were used. a knife, hammer, wrench, box cutters a rope around her neck, f fibers from the rope around the victim s hands. you can t estimate the time this attack took. she said she couldn t. that s important because the defense says norwood killed murray in a horrific fight when she lost control and it was not premeditated. they are asked to find her guilty of first degree premeditated murd
even when things are at their very worst, the most successful small business owners say they re not giving up. we met two in upstate new york who are truly survivors. they chose to fight the good fight after their business went bankrupt. they chose to reorganize, a long and hard road, but they had a hunch and a strategy and they went with it. that s how a brand-new brand was borne out of bankruptcy. we really launched the liberty tabletop brand on a wing and a prayer. we had no idea what we were doing so we had to sort of make it up as we went along. matt roberts and greg owens know what it s like to be small business owners on the brink. how are we going to survive? how are we going to hold this together? what are we going to do? matt and greg found themselves in a place no business owner wants to be, filing for chapter 11. that certainly wasn t the plan
basically suing us so that forced our hand. once the bulk of their business was gone, bankruptcy became the only option but these two refused to just walk away. matt and greg started hatching a plan b. before we turned out the lights we had several coils of steel, many coils of steel lying around the factory. instead of letting them sit there, we decided to turn it into flatware and that s the inventory that we started with. it was about $23,000 worth of flatware that i recall. that $23,000 worth of flatware marked the beginning of liberty tabletop. going through bankruptcy with a new brand was incredibly complicated. we actually created liberty tabletop and our wives own it. the bankruptcy court knew about it. we told them, this is how we re going to survive so let us do this. working with creditors who backed their plans, greg and matt mapped out their exit from the bankruptcy by launching their new consumer line in three steps.
now the factory was only open as needed. i believe we ran six campaigns, each one larger than the one before. we would bring back people temporarily, turn on all the machines, fill up the shelves, turn them back off and sell through it until we had to do it the next time. these were hard times for the company and the owners. the biggest problem we had is capitol. greg would come to me and say, matt, we re not going to be able to make payroll. we need to come up with $12,500. we need to come up with $11,000. what i d do is go down to the factory and start scrapping. their strategy of being an online only business that sells directly to consumers started paying off immediately. our first sale on our website was halloween of 2010. we literally started our business right after we filed bankruptcy. sort of crazy. the liberty brand itself was self-sustaining and quite profitable from its genesis. we re bypassing all of the other middlemen and actually