Casey Devanna was 32 when she was found dead in a Best Western hotel room on North Milledge Avenue in Athens, Georgia. Housekeeping discovered her body on a Sunday in August 2017, and investigators determined she had been fatally shot.

Attention quickly focused on her husband of one month, Alexander Thomas Devanna, who fled the scene. Authorities believed he was driving a red Hyundai Santa Fe and possibly headed to Florida; he was arrested in Ocala the following month. At trial prosecutors presented messages in which Alexander wrote that he planned to shoot his wife and himself and sent a photograph of himself holding a gun to his own head. He claimed the gun discharged during a struggle after his wife reacted to messages from a former lover.

In June 2019 a Clarke County Superior Court jury found Alexander Thomas Devanna guilty of murder; he was sentenced to life without parole plus 10 years, and the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld the conviction in October 2021. Does anyone have information about Casey’s life in Athens or who might have known the couple before their move there?