It hadn't been publicly announced yet, but Marty Carson was about to be promoted to chief

deputy of the Scott County Sheriff's Department.

That's the highest ranking officer right below his father, the sheriff.

But then he shot his partner, so his father delayed that promotion.

The optics, you know, promoting his son after he just killed his partner would have been

terrible.

But a few months later, Marty was in fact made chief deputy.

Laurie Antsie had already been living with a low, gnawing fear, and it was only getting

worse.

Because Laurie is living in a county where she believes the chief deputy intentionally

killed her husband, and it seemed as if Marty was being rewarded.

You feel like you have no law enforcement, because I don't trust them.

Basically, I just tried, you know, just be careful, watch my back, and, you know, just

always be aware of my surroundings, because I knew anything could be possible, what these

people might do, or, you know, what was her next step going to be.

So I did have a gun here at the house, we had several.

So I did feel comfortable, you know, if I needed to use it, I added on a security system

here at the house, and it was just always making sure the doors were locked.

At that point, I feel like I didn't have anyone, no one to turn to.

There was something Laurie didn't know yet, which is just as well, because it would have

frightened her even more.

In the weeks before he was killed, John John had been trying to leave the Scott County

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