The book describes the difficulty Kathy had in the years afterward coping with the stress of the jailing and related events.[7] The couple's relationship deteriorated in subsequent years, and they divorced in 2012.[8]
In August 2012, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was charged with plotting to have Kathy Zeitoun, her son, and another man murdered.[9] In July 2013, Zeitoun was tried and found not guilty of charges of attempted first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree murder. The state's main witness, who had an extensive multi-state criminal record, was found not credible.[10] In 2016, Zeitoun was convicted of felony stalking his ex-wife.[11]In September 2018, after completing his prison sentence, Zeitoun was ordered deported by an immigration judge, but then freed from federal detention, as his native Syria was in the midst of a civil war and had no diplomatic relations in place to facilitate receiving deportees.[12]
