In early October 2013 a stationary vehicle on a remote logging road near Double Springs, Alabama, contained the bodies of four people killed by shotgun blasts. Among them was 39-year-old Kristie Hunt Campbell Hamrick. Also found dead in the car were her ex-husband Robert Samuel Hamrick, 30; her brother Andy Keith Hunt, 38; and a family friend, Kevin Carey, 30. All four reportedly lived at the same address in Savannah, Tennessee.

Investigators recovered handwritten notes from each person in which they denied criminal guilt and expressed preferring death to imprisonment. The deaths were tied to an ongoing Tennessee investigation into child pornography and molestation that involved Kristie and her ex-husband. Authorities concluded that one of the men shot the other three occupants before turning the gun on himself, though accounts differ on whether Andy Hunt or Robert Hamrick fired the fatal shots.

Did anyone in the region know this family well enough to shed light on how such a pact might have formed or who else could clarify the sequence of events?