David Murrell Ford was 40 and an off-duty Lebanon Police Department officer when he was found fatally shot in the head at his home on Graham Road in Campbellsville, Kentucky. His wife, Tonya Ford, placed a 911 call on February 10, 2009, reporting she had found him dead.

The Kentucky State Police conducted a lengthy investigation that produced an indictment by a Taylor County grand jury in October 2010 charging 37-year-old Tonya M. Ford with murder. At trial in August 2012 prosecutors presented a threatening note near David’s body bearing Tonya’s fingerprints, cell phone records that contradicted her alibi and placed her near the home, testimony that she washed her hands after being told she would be tested for gunshot residue, and a recorded statement by her mother in which the mother said Tonya had confessed.

After nearly twelve hours of deliberation the jury found Tonya Ford guilty and recommended a 20-year sentence, which the judge imposed. The conviction was later appealed and the Kentucky Supreme Court upheld it.

Did anyone in the Campbellsville area know the Fords well enough to shed light on what led to this violence?