Michael Lee Strickland, 41, was found dead from a gunshot wound in the driveway of his Fairview Road home in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, on a Friday afternoon in October 2013. His body was discovered shortly before 12:45 p.m. outside the workshop behind the house.

Initial accounts from his wife, Marie Strickland, portrayed their marriage as happy and she denied involvement after calling 911 to report finding him unresponsive. Family statements and the son’s account to investigators described frequent arguments, mutual infidelity, and talk of divorce in the months before the shooting. Investigators examined deleted cellphone messages between Marie and her younger brother, Chris Smallin, and Smallin told police Marie had asked him for a gun and later how to check if it was loaded.

Marie ultimately admitted to shooting Michael, claiming longterm abuse and hazy recall of firing while running away, but bullet trajectory analysis did not match that account. She was charged with first-degree murder; Chris Smallin was charged with accessory after the fact and destruction of evidence. In June 2015 Marie, then 42, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 21-year sentence; Smallin pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and received a suspended two-year sentence. Does anyone have memories of the neighborhood or information about Michael’s life and family that could add context to what happened?