On May 1, 1993, 34-year-old Kimberly Thompson Wright, a dispatcher for the Flint Police Department, was found dead in the basement of her Fenton Township home from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Her estranged husband, former Michigan State Trooper Douglas Wright, called 911 and reported the death as a suicide. Investigators later described the scene as having been altered: Kimberly’s body had been moved and the weapon cleaned.

The death remained classified as a suicide for years while Douglas Wright relocated to Florida and continued in law enforcement. In 2000 the Genesee County Sheriff reopened cold cases and Kimberly’s was re-examined. A new taped interview captured Wright changing his account; he then said he had been inside the house, in the stairwell, when the shot was fired. That statement contradicted his original report and led prosecutors to authorize murder and weapon charges.

Douglas Wright was arrested in August 2002 and extradited to Michigan. At trial in 2003 a jury convicted him of second-degree murder and felony firearm possession; he was sentenced to 25 to 50 years for the murder plus two years for the firearm count. Does anyone have information about Kimberly’s life or the household in Fenton Township leading up to May 1993?