On July 27, 2011, Karen Kay Kelly, 48, was found dead inside her home on Hickory Fork Road in Gloucester, Virginia. Deputies from the Gloucester Sheriff’s Office determined she had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the head. A friend discovered the body and family members later held a memorial service.

Investigators soon focused on a nearby neighbor, 30-year-old Richard Earl Witcher Jr. A friend who found Kelly, Kathleen Hamilton, said Kelly had been afraid for her life in the days before her death and was planning to leave the area.

Witcher was arrested and initially charged with first-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. He later entered an Alford plea to a reduced second-degree murder charge and a firearm charge and received an 18-year prison sentence in May 2013. Did anyone in the Gloucester area have contact with Karen in the weeks before July 27, 2011, and recall her saying she planned to leave?