Denise Michelle Caraway, 48, was killed in her Lawrence County, Indiana, home on October 7, 2009. A teacher at Hoosier Uplands Head Start for sixteen years and mother of two adult sons, she died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, chest, and abdomen after an argument with her husband over an unpaid utility bill. Police say Larry Michael Caraway had been drinking and had taken Valium before the dispute escalated. He shot Denise seven times with a .22-caliber revolver and then placed the gun in her hand to make the scene appear to be a suicide.

Officers had been called to the couple’s home for prior domestic disputes. Larry Caraway was arrested and initially charged with voluntary manslaughter; the charge was later upgraded to murder and altering the scene of a death. He first told police his wife shot herself, then admitted he had fabricated that account. In February 2011 he pleaded guilty to murder and received the maximum sentence of 65 years in the Department of Correction.

Did anyone in the Lawrence County area know Denise or the family and have information about the years leading up to October 2009?