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Lisa Nettie Annette Peterson, 32, was shot to death at her Muncie, Indiana home on June 3, 2011. The killing occurred amid a bitter marital dispute after she had separated from and filed for divorce from her husband the year before. One of the couple’s children overheard their mother screaming and pleading for her life just before the shots.

The shooter was her estranged husband, Benjamin Hankins, a former reserve police officer and correctional officer. Peterson suffered three gunshot wounds: one to the leg, one that passed through her arm into her chest, and a third to the lower torso. A defensive wound on her arm indicated she tried to shield herself, and the pathologist concluded she died of blood loss. Authorities say Hankins waited 17 minutes after the shooting to call 911. Threatening text messages from Hankins to Peterson were introduced at trial alongside the medical testimony.

Did anyone in the Muncie area have information about the dispute, the texts, or what happened that day?