On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009, 76-year-old Raymonde Joseph was killed in a shooting at the Jupiter, Florida home of Jim and Muriel Sitton where family had gathered for the holiday. The shooter was identified as a relative, Paul Michael Merhige, who had been estranged from the family for more than a decade and reportedly had a history of mental health problems and longstanding grievances against relatives.

Merhige was a late addition to the gathering. After several hours at the Sitton home he began shooting, killing Raymonde Joseph, her twin nieces Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, and a six-year-old granddaughter, Makayla Sitton. Reports say he reloaded during the attack and told someone he had been waiting 20 years to do this. Merhige fled and was captured on January 2, 2010, after a national broadcast. He faced multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder; in October 2011 he pleaded guilty and received seven consecutive life terms without parole. Jim and Muriel Sitton later sued Merhige’s parents; the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in 2014 that the parents could not be held liable.

Did anyone in Jupiter remember anything unusual about that Thanksgiving gathering or Merhige’s visits leading up to the shooting?