On the evening of January 9, 2024, 77-year-old Mary Thomas was found dead in her bed at a home on Blue Bell Way in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from a gunshot wound. The initial 911 call came from the couple’s daughter after her father, 76-year-old Terry Thomas, telephoned to say he had shot his wife.

When deputies arrived, Terry Thomas first said his wife had attempted to stab him, then that she had taken a gun and shot herself. The bedroom showed no signs of a struggle and no knife was recovered. While being treated at a medical center, he told detectives the couple had long-standing marital problems and described a struggle over a handgun. He also made a separate phone call to his son in which he said he had grown tired of arguing with his wife and had shot her and expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.

The .22 caliber handgun found on Terry Thomas’s side of the bed had been reported stolen in Florida in 2014. Based on conflicting statements and the evidence, Terry Thomas was arrested and charged with murder and receiving a stolen firearm and held on a $500,000 cash bond; a grand jury later indicted him on those charges. If anyone knew Mary or has information about the case, please share what can help investigators.