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Donna Sanders, 29, of Mansfield, Georgia, was murdered on May 23, 2002, in an incident described as driven by jealousy and involving a love triangle with her boyfriend Mark Sullivan and his ex-girlfriend Barbara Elaine Dalton. Dalton waited for Sanders’ 10-year-old son Wesley at the school bus stop, then forced Sanders and Wesley into Sanders’ truck at gunpoint and drove them to Dalton’s son’s home on Dixie Road in Mansfield.

Inside that home, in the presence of both Wesley and Dalton’s son Brian Dean, Barbara Dalton shot Donna Sanders in the forehead. Dalton fled but was arrested on July 10, 2003, and indicted on multiple counts including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. A jury found her guilty on all counts and she was sentenced on July 15, 2004, to life without parole; the Georgia Supreme Court later upheld the conviction and sentence.

Did anyone in the Mansfield area know Donna, Wesley, or the families involved and have additional details about that day or the events leading up to the killing?