On a late Thursday morning in June 2016, 35-year-old Jenna Ellen Charlton Wall was shot to death in her Powder Springs, Georgia, home. A kindergarten teacher at Kemp Elementary School and lifelong Cobb County resident, she had moved back into her childhood home with her two young sons while separating from her estranged husband, Jerrod Wall.

The person charged in the shooting was Jenna’s former mother-in-law, 63-year-old Elizabeth Betsy Wall. They then heard the gunshots. Jenna died of multiple gunshot wounds; the boys were not physically harmed. Elizabeth Wall was taken into custody at the scene and later indicted on felony murder, malice murder, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony, and cruelty to children.

Court filings and statements in the case say Elizabeth Wall had researched shootings and bought a gun months earlier, and that she pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder in March 2018. She was sentenced to life in prison. Did anyone who knew Jenna, her family, or the household notice changes in behavior before June 2016?