Sandra Jo Sandi Roberts Ott, a 33-year-old registered nurse, was murdered on the night of December 23, 1999, in Easley, South Carolina. At Timothy’s house, 28-year-old Dallen Forrest Bounds broke in through a window and shot and killed Sandi. Timothy escaped to a neighbor’s house but was pursued and fatally shot by Bounds while the couple’s five-year-old son slept in his bedroom and was unharmed.

Bounds fled and triggered a 12-hour manhunt during which he took hostages in another Easley home and ultimately died by suicide as officers closed in. Investigators later linked Bounds to two other Greenville-area murders: RadioShack employee Jonathan Lemuel Lara on June 26, 1999, and florist Karen Moore Hayden on December 22, 1999. Forensic evidence and an anonymous tip connected Bounds to all four homicides; an accomplice in the Lara killing, Casandra Laster, was convicted of accessory after the fact.

Are there details about Sandi’s life or the case timeline that readers from the area can add?