Heather Marie Head Montez was 35 when she and her three children were killed in their Saco, Maine apartment on July 26, 2014, in a murder-suicide carried out by her husband, Joel Smith, 33. The five bodies were discovered the next day after a worried friend asked a maintenance worker to check on the family.

The couple had moved to Maine from Arizona a few years earlier; neighbors saw them as outwardly happy, but family said the marriage had serious problems, including financial trouble, controlling behavior by Joel, Heather’s recent treatment for substance abuse, and Joel’s reported depression and threats of suicide. No arrests were made since the perpetrator was deceased and investigators reported no prior police domestic violence reports.

Was anyone in the Saco or Arizona communities aware of signs that could shed more light on what happened in the days before July 26, 2014?