On the morning of October 25, 2016, 43-year-old Kenneth Myszkewicz was found dead inside his West Peck Street home in Whitewater, Wisconsin. His wife had been awakened by a loud thud and discovered him unresponsive in his office; investigators later determined he had been shot multiple times in the arm, chest, and back. A .40 caliber shell casing in the hallway and the Walworth County Medical Examiner’s examination led police to classify the death as a homicide.

Police attention soon turned to the 31-year-old brother of Myszkewicz’s wife, Alan Johnson. Johnson initially denied knowledge but later confessed to detectives when officers went to his home. He allegedly used his father’s .40 caliber Smith & Wesson and told police he had planned to kill Myszkewicz and then take his own life, citing alleged prior abuse and inappropriate material found on Myszkewicz’s computer as motive. A jury convicted Johnson of first-degree reckless homicide in 2017 and sentenced him to 25 years, but the state’s high court later ruled the jury should have been instructed on self-defense, leading to a new trial.

Did anyone in the community know more about tensions within the family or what happened that night?