Lindsey Morgan was 34 and living in Mesick, Michigan, when she was shot and killed on August 8, 2014. The killing followed a turbulent, on-again, off-again relationship with Erik Robert Beauchamp, with whom she shared two of her four children. In the days before the shooting the couple had been living in a tent in a friend’s backyard, and Lindsey had begun seeing another man.

On the morning of August 8 Lindsey phoned her mother to report that Beauchamp had threatened her. About twenty minutes later Beauchamp forced his way into the home where Lindsey and her children were and shot her three times. He fled, triggering a nearly seven-hour manhunt that ended at Peterson Bridge roughly 25 miles south of the scene; officers shot him in the upper leg and took him into custody.

Beauchamp was tried for the killing. The defense sought voluntary manslaughter, arguing he intended to kill himself and lost control; Beauchamp testified that the shooting was a blank in his memory. The prosecution described the act as methodical; a jury convicted him of second-degree murder and on March 18, 2015, he received a sentence of 37 1/2 to 60 years. Does anyone have information about Lindsey’s life in Mesick or the days before August 8, 2014?