Ha.
I wasn't expecting so many late reactions to the HLN piece about Steven's former girlfriend.
As I posted the night it aired, I was really hoping that she'd give us a smoking gun. Maybe he said something to her incriminating himself. Maybe she heard something during the fifteen minute call she had with him on the day of the murder. Given how close they were during the entire ordeal, you'd think she'd have something to offer that would actually be both probative and admissible.
Instead, though, she just added to the narrative about him being a white trash POS. None of the info about his prior bad acts (beating her up, threatening to kill her during an argument, etc) would've been allowed at trial. I know that's probably confusing to some, but the restriction on prior bad acts evidence except in certain limited circumstances is one of the most important evidentiary rules that we have.
Which brings us to the obvious question: Why would she come forward to trash him publicly at this point? Who the hell knows. She's not exactly stable; he cut off all communication with her a couple of years ago; and now she (incorrectly) believes that there's a chance he might get out. Maybe she's trying to get back at him for how he treated her before? Maybe, in hindsight, she actually thinks he did it, so she thinks she's doing the right think by "helping" to keep him in prison?
Regardless, under the circumstances, it's hard for me to believe that she's actually telling us the entire truth now. And besides, she didn't even say anything that incriminates Steven. As someone else said, her comments just make him sound like the kind of guy who might commit a murder, but that's not evidence that he committed this crime on this particular occasion.