On August 5, 2020, 38-year-old Maggie Flint Hurdel was shot and killed in Fort Dodge, Iowa, while working on her pickup truck in a friend’s garage. Her estranged husband, Justin Hurdel, had come earlier that day to tell her he had signed divorce papers. After leaving and then returning with a sawed-off shotgun, he waited for Maggie and her friend to return from an auto parts store and then shot Maggie in the back.

He then fired at himself in a suicide attempt that reportedly malfunctioned, leaving severe facial injuries, and fled the scene.Police captured him the next morning after a 17-hour manhunt. At trial his defense claimed the fatal discharge was accidental and that he intended only to shoot himself; a Boone County jury convicted him of first-degree murder after two hours of deliberation.

The case record references a history of domestic abuse, earlier domestic violence charges, and a no-contact order that did not prevent this outcome.Does anyone who knew Maggie or her family have information about her history of abuse or the events leading up to that day?