Heather Hockenbary, a 42-year-old White woman, was killed in Spearfish, South Dakota, on August 17, 2018, when she was shot by her husband, Scott Hockenbary. Authorities later described what happened as a murder-suicide: a violent rupture inside a marriage that ended with Heather dead first, and Scott's death following days later.
In the immediate aftermath, investigators worked the case across jurisdictions, treating it as a serious homicide scene even as the focus narrowed to the couple
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