On June 13, 2011, in Dexter, Maine, 38-year-old schoolteacher Amy Bagley Lake and her two children, 13-year-old Coty and 12-year-old Monica, were found dead at their home. The Maine State Police investigation determined the deaths were a murder-suicide carried out by Amy’s estranged husband, 37-year-old Steven Lake, who used a 12-gauge shotgun on Amy and the children before killing himself. The children’s school reported their absence, which prompted a welfare check and the discovery of the scene.

Amy had obtained a protection from abuse order against Steven and had moved several times in the year before the killings to try to protect herself and the children. Steven had been arrested for violating the protection order and had a history of threatening behavior. A later report cited failures in how the legal system handled the domestic violence situation, which may have contributed to the outcome. Does anyone have memories of Amy, Coty, or Monica, or information that could shed light on what led up to that day?