On March 10, 2015, 10-year-old Corey LaValley Jr. was found dead in a Dorr Township, Michigan mobile home after a fire was reported. His 33-year-old mother, Debra Sheppard, and 12-year-old sister, Emma McComber, were also found deceased. Autopsies showed all three had gunshot wounds to the head and had been placed in their beds before the fire was intentionally set.

Investigators focused on Corey LaValley, the victims’ 32-year-old father, who was arrested about 65 miles away in Eaton County. Authorities say the shootings likely occurred on the evening of March 9 and that the suspect returned the next day to set the fire. Prosecutors disclosed that LaValley confessed to his brother and father, who alerted police. After being found competent, he was charged and later pleaded no contest to three counts of second-degree murder. He denied remembering the killings.

LaValley was sentenced in February 2016 to a minimum of 55 years and a maximum of 82 years in prison for the three deaths. Did anyone in the area know the family or have information about tensions in their household?