Paul Sheldon Berkley, 46, was murdered on December 18, 2005, in Raleigh, North Carolina. A Navy reservist newly returned from a Middle East deployment, he was shot in the back of the head while at Millbrook Exchange Park. His wife, Monique Berkley, 27 at the time, had been having an affair with Andrew Deshawn Canty and, according to authorities, plotted Paul’s killing so she could collect a $400,000 life insurance policy. Monique was also shot in the shoulder during the incident.

Canty carried out the shooting, with Latwon Darrell Johnson driving him to the scene. Canty and Johnson were arrested and charged; Monique was arrested the next day. Reports say the murder weapon was thrown in a river and never recovered, though investigators matched shell casings at the scene to a gun that had been test-fired in a Johnston County yard and sold to Canty. Monique and Canty later pleaded guilty and received life sentences without parole.