The adult daughter of Byrd and Melanie Billings said she will move to the home where her parents were brutally murdered July 9 to take care of her 13 younger siblings, according to reports in the Pensacola News Journal.

Ashley Markham, 26, said that it was her mother's wish for her to care of the children. Markham also defended her parents whose lives and histories had come under national media attention following the murders.

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