On a late afternoon in February 2021, deputies found three members of a family dead inside a home on County Road 6041 in Wesley, Arkansas. Victims were 51-year-old Tami Lynn Chenoweth, her husband James Stanley McGhee, 59, and Tami’s daughter Cheyene Chenoweth, 26. The scene showed extreme violence: Tami had been shot at least nine times, James at least six times, and Cheyene had been both shot and stabbed.

Investigators focused on Tami’s 22-year-old son, Hunter Chenoweth. Two vehicles that had been at the home were sought and one was found abandoned on Interstate 40. State troopers later stopped a van on Interstate 30; Hunter exited the vehicle armed with a rifle and was taken into custody. Cheyene’s infant was missing from the house but was located inside the van unharmed and placed with the Department of Human Services. A 25-year-old woman who had been driving the van was questioned and released.

Reports note prior tension involving Hunter and his girlfriend and that Tami mentioned this in a phone call the day of the killings. Hunter was charged with three counts of capital murder, later pleaded guilty, and received three consecutive life sentences without parole. Did anyone in the Wesley area know the family or have information about tensions in the household before February 2021?