(CBS) PENSACOLA, Fla. - The daughter of a Florida Panhandle couple known for adopting 13 special needs children and killed in their home in July has agreed to be on the Oprah Winfrey Show after turning down numerous media requests for an interview, CBS station WFOR-TV reported.

Ashley Markham, her husband and attorney will be traveling to Chicago next week to tape an episode of the "Oprah Winfrey Show."

Her attorney says Oprah will focus on the family and their legacy, not the murders. Markham is expected to speak about her parents' mission to help special-needs children and her effort to continue that cause.

Markham has turned down interview requests from the national media who wanted to focus on the crime.

Byrd and Melanie Billings were shot dead in their bedroom on July 9. At the time of their murder, the Billings had nine adopted special-needs children between the ages of 4 and 11.

Six men and a 16-year-old have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the slayings. A woman has pleaded not guilty as an accessory to the crime.

Prosecutors say she hid a safe stolen from the Billings' home in her yard.
Investigators have said the extensive surveillance system in the family's sprawling west Escambia County home captured the men, some of them in ninja garb, entering and leaving in less than four minutes.

The dozens of witness and suspect interviews reveal a complex investigation involving the suspects and their ties to Byrd Billings, his used car financing business, gangs, drugs and the Mexican underworld.

The safe taken from the family's home contained nothing of value, but a second safe that wasn't stolen had $164,000 in cash. An attorney for the family has said the suspects might have been targeting the second safe.

Officials at Winfrey's Harpo Productions wouldn't comment about the episode until after it is taped.


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