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Susan Bagby Leathers, 32, was found fatally shot in the face inside her Verdigris, Oklahoma, home after neighbors heard loud music the night before and police arrived the next morning. Her husband, William Leathers, 29, was found at the door, also bloody; he gave differing accounts including one that he had been playing with a pistol when it discharged and struck his wife. The couple’s young child was in the house and was placed in the custody of the Department of Human Services, then placed with Susan’s family members.

Investigators treated Susan’s death as a homicide. William, who had prior felony convictions including DUI and animal cruelty, was initially arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm and later charged with first-degree murder. He waived a jury trial, entered a cold plea, and a Rogers County judge sentenced him to life in prison plus 20 years for a felony DUI conviction.

Did anyone in Verdigris know the Leathers family or notice anything unusual about the household before February 27, 2015?