Laura Lee Day speaks out on drowning murder of her stepson [Video]

In an encore “20/20” airing July 5 at 9 p.m. ET, the show, which originally aired in 2022, revisits the case of Laura Day, who was convicted of murder in the 2012 death of her 6-year-old stepson.

In 2013, Laura Day was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the drowning death of her 6-year-old stepson. Serving nearly 10 years of her life sentence, she maintains that the boy’s drowning death at a Texas beach was an accident.

Day said now is the right time to tell her story.

“A tragic accident happened. I tried to save him,” Day told “20/20” in her first interview.

The video featured above is from Laura Day’s 1st 20/20 interview

On October 5, 2012, Day said that she picked up her stepson, Taylor Syring, from school in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was a Friday and she said that Taylor wanted to go to the …