On a Sunday morning in January 2017, the body of 27-year-old Courtney Danielle Wells was found along a dirt road in Guyton, Georgia. A native of Jesup who had lived in Effingham County for seventeen years, she was a mother of four. Investigators determined she died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, neck, torso, and upper extremities and described the death as suspicious.

Investigators recovered Wells’ belongings on the opposite side of the road from her body, including a letter addressed to her that led them to the home of Scott Pinholster, a man with whom she had been in a romantic relationship. The inquiry reconstructed a confrontation after an argument: Wells sought refuge with another man, Tony Arnsdorff; when Arnsdorff tried to return her to Pinholster she left; the two men then located her, Arnsdorff struck her, and Pinholster shot her multiple times with a shotgun.

Both Pinholster, then 42, and Arnsdorff were arrested and later indicted on multiple charges including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and concealing the death of another. Arnsdorff was tried and convicted in September 2019 and sentenced to life without parole; Pinholster was also convicted and given life without parole plus 15 years, and the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the convictions. Did anyone who knew Courtney or who was in Guyton that January morning see or hear anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline?