On July 24, 2023, at about 10 p.m. Saginaw police responded to a home in the 200 block of Lottie Lane and found 46-year-old Kimberly Marie Franks Knapp on a bed with a gunshot wound to her upper chest. Knapp, a Fort Worth criminal defense attorney, was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital and pronounced dead. The only other person at the scene was 32-year-old Rance Ray Magby, who initially said Knapp had shot herself; investigators later developed evidence that led to Magby’s arrest and a murder charge. Bond was set at $500,000.

Knapp was born February 9, 1977, in Hobart, Oklahoma, and moved to Saginaw, Texas, in 1987. A former competitive gymnast who trained under coaches including Béla Károlyi, she graduated Boswell High School in 1995, attended Texas Wesleyan University and Baylor Law School, and was a well-regarded criminal defense attorney and adjunct criminal justice professor. Funeral services were held July 31, 2023, with interment in Hobart. She is survived by her mother Beverly Franks, brother Kristopher Franks, and husband John Knapp.

Was anyone in the Saginaw area that night aware of unusual activity on Lottie Lane or of Kimberly’s relationship with the other person at the scene?