Autumn Renee Wydner, 45, was found dead inside a Decatur home on Wheat Avenue after a welfare check was requested on August 4, 2018. Officers discovered Wydner and 54-year-old Ron Light deceased at about 5:39 p.m. Neighbors said the two had been in a relationship for several years and tended to keep to themselves.

Investigators treated the scene as a domestic violence incident and a murder-suicide, concluding that Light fatally shot Wydner and then took his own life; the bodies were sent to the Department of Forensic Sciences in Huntsville for further examination. No arrests were made because the primary suspect was deceased. Autumn’s funeral was held August 10, 2018, and she was survived by her father, two brothers, and two sisters.