On July 18, 2009, 29-year-old Holly Rae Durben was found dead in the Fremont County, Iowa, farmhouse she shared with her fiancé. Responding officers discovered Holly in bed with a 12-gauge shotgun resting in her left hand and a shotgun wound to the left side of her head. Her fiancé, Brian Davis, had placed the 911 call and told dispatch Holly had shot herself.

Investigators documented several inconsistencies with a suicide. Holly was right-handed, a bathroom mirror was broken and blood was present, and the only identifiable fingerprints on the shotgun belonged to Brian Davis. A distressed text from Holly that night and statements from friends and family about a history of abuse added to the case. The initial autopsy was inconclusive, noting unexplained bruising on Holly’s neck.

The case was later prosecuted as a homicide. In October 2014 Brian Davis was arrested and charged with first-degree murder; in February 2015 a jury found him guilty and he received life without parole. Did anyone who knew Holly notice changes in her relationships or behavior in the months before July 2009?