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"Five months after the deadly stabbing of a Navy veteran, the family of one of the suspects is speaking out.James Washington has been charged with murder and armed robbery, and his girlfriend, Dana Eisenback, has been charged with aiding in the commission of those crimes.Both were in court Monday in advance of their trials.It's a more than 400-mile trip both ways for Robert Eader's Ohio-based family, but it's a drive they make when suspects Washington and Eisenback are in court.In December, the 55-year-old was stabbed multiple times and his throat was slit inside his Jeffersonville apartment during an alleged robbery gone bad.\"Everyday it's the same. It's not going to change. Bobby will never come back,\" said Eader's brother-in-law, Adam Noe.\"It's been five months now and we still have people come in every day, just about, to the store, telling us how sorry they are, how much they miss him,\" said Eader's former boss, Allen Smith.On Monday, Eader's loved ones were back in Clark County to fight Eisenback's attempt to get out of jail.In court, her attorney argued she's eight months along in a high-risk pregnancy.He also said Eisenback was in the getaway car, not in Eader's apartment when Washington killed him.But Washington's mother, Virginia James, thinks things went down differently.\"He called me and told me he was trying to protect Dana, and he wanted to see that she got out of trouble. So what he told me is he's taking the blame for her,\" said James.\"So you think she's the one who did this?\" WLKY's Marissa Alter asked James.\"Yes, that's what I really think, but I can't prove it,\" said James.But police said Washington admitted he went to Eader's apartment to collect on an earlier drug deal, and that when Eader pulled out extra cash, Washington killed him over it.\"He runs instead of fights, so it's really hard for me to believe he did that,\" said James.Who did what will be up to a jury to decide, but until then, both suspects will remain behind bars.The judge denied Eisenback's request for bond.\"They surely don't need to be walking the streets, either one of them,\" said Smith.\"They should be locked up the rest of their lives,\" said Noe.Eisenback's trial is set to begin May 21.Washington's was scheduled for then, too, but has been moved to Sept. 17.Both suspects face the same penalties if convicted of both charges, a maximum of 85 years. That's because, in Indiana, aiding in the commission of a crime carries the same penalty as the crime does.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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