Amberly Nicole Harris, 32, was found dead in her Independence, Kentucky, apartment in mid-December 2022 after her employer requested a welfare check when she missed several days of work. Officers entered the Beechgrove Drive residence and discovered Harris deceased in a bedroom from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Her 55-year-old live-in boyfriend, Tommy Joe Powell, was at the scene and admitted to killing her several days earlier and to having lived in the apartment with her body.

Court records obtained during the investigation show a history of domestic violence: Powell pleaded guilty in November 2021 to choking Harris during an argument over her social media use, an assault in which a witness on the phone with Harris heard a male say Die Bitch. Investigators also reported that Powell had taken out a $20,000 accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy in Harris’s name with himself as beneficiary weeks before her death.

What additional information about Harris’s last days might help explain how this violence escalated, and can anyone who knew her or her movements around mid-December 2022 come forward with details?