Lawana Morton, 46, of Iron Station, North Carolina, was found dead in her bedroom on January 15, 2007. She suffered a single gunshot wound to the head; no weapon was located at the scene. Morton worked for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department as a courthouse bailiff and at the county detention center, and also served as a security guard at Duke Energy’s McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman. She was divorced and had been staying with a friend after her house burned down.

Investigators arrested Monty Wood Poteat, a man with a lengthy criminal history in Rowan County, charging him with first-degree murder. Authorities reported Poteat had violated a domestic violence protection order and listed his address as the same location where Morton was living. The jury found Monty Poteat guilty after less than an hour of deliberation.

Did anyone who knew Lawana or her routines around Iron Station in January 2007 notice anything unusual or have information that could add context to what happened?