Joseph Thomas Joey Fulgham was 28 when he was found shot once in the back of the head in his bed in Longview, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, on Mother’s Day weekend in May 2003. The weapon was a .22 caliber rifle and the body was discovered where he slept.

Investigators focused on his estranged wife, Kristi Fulgham, and her 13-year-old half-brother, Tyler Edmonds, after Edmonds confessed, saying he and Kristi had entered Joey’s bedroom and pulled the trigger together. Prosecutors alleged a financial motive: Kristi had asked about Joey’s life insurance and, according to the theory at trial, took his wallet and a computer component to stage a robbery.

Edmonds later recanted, saying Kristi had coerced him. He was convicted of murder in 2004, but that conviction was overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 2007 because a forensic pathologist’s testimony was found tainted; Edmonds was acquitted at retrial in 2008. Kristi Fulgham was convicted of capital murder in December 2006 and sentenced to death; that sentence was later overturned and she was resentenced to life without parole after the state declined to seek death again in November 2010.

Did anyone in Longview know Joey’s movements or hear about unusual visitors around that Mother’s Day weekend?