Barbara Ann Hazelton Dilger was 69 when she died at her Matamoras, Pennsylvania, home on Wednesday, October 3, 2007. A lifelong area resident and a retired social worker for The Hope Center in Port Jervis, her death was caused by an act of gun violence.

Police charged her husband, William H. Dilger, who was 71 at the time, in connection with her death and he was later arrested. The case record indicates he ultimately entered a guilty plea in relation to Barbara’s killing.

What details about the events leading up to October 3, 2007, or the couple’s lives in Matamoras might help explain what happened that day?