Patti Gadd, 73, died of gunshot wounds in Forest Hill, West Virginia, with September 11, 2015 recorded as the date of her death. Deputies did not discover Patti and her husband Wayne until Monday, September 14; investigators believed both had been dead at least three days. Patti had been shot twice and her body had been moved into a bedroom, leaving a blood trail through the home. Wayne had at least one gunshot wound.

The couple’s son, John Edward Gadd, told police that Wayne accidentally shot Patti and that John then shot his father in self-defense. Sheriff Garry Wheeler stressed that this was John’s version, not an established conclusion. John was arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of concealing a dead body; at that stage no murder charges had been filed while investigators awaited the state medical examiner’s findings. The delay in reporting the deaths and the disturbed crime scene left significant unanswered questions about the sequence of events.

Did anyone in the Forest Hill area see or hear anything around September 11–14 that might clarify what happened?