Lynette Denise Farley was 41 when she was killed on September 25, 2014. Court records say her husband, Johnnie Ray Farley, drove her to an isolated parcel of his rural property on the Mercer–Raleigh county line, brought a shovel, a mattock and a concealed shotgun, and intentionally shot her in the chest. The medical examiner determined the gunshot wound caused her death.

After the killing, he removed her clothing, dragged her down a hillside, dug a shallow grave and buried her. He discarded a spent shell in nearby bushes, hid the shotgun in a burned-out building, stored digging tools at home, threw her purse and bloodstained clothes in the trash and used her phone to send messages intended to suggest she was alive. Surveillance footage, phone-tower connections and credit-card transactions contradicted his initial story that he had left her at home; when confronted, he confessed and led investigators to the grave.

Prosecutors also presented testimony about months of jealous and threatening behavior, including threats to shoot Lynette and another man, ramming her vehicle and slashing her tires. Does anyone have information about Lynette’s life or those who might have seen her in the weeks before September 25, 2014?