Samuel Collins, 60, was killed in his Marietta, Georgia home after a domestic dispute that reportedly began over how dinner had been prepared. The fatal altercation happened around October 3, 2014; his partner, 59-year-old Frank Davis Bowles, shot Collins multiple times, then dragged his body from the house on Old Concord Road and concealed it in the woods behind the property.

Bowles took Collins’ driver’s license, credit cards, and van and drove to Tennessee, where officers found him passed out inside the vehicle on the side of a highway within a day or so of the killing. He confessed, was extradited to Cobb County, and pleaded guilty to malice murder. A Cobb Superior Court judge accepted the plea and sentenced Bowles to life in prison. One of Collins’ sisters read a statement of forgiveness during the plea hearing.

Are there details about Collins’ life or the couple’s history that could help explain how the dispute escalated so quickly?