A tense morning in Austin spirals into chaos as a woman mistakenly shoots at shadows, believing she’s defending herself against intruders. Detectives arrive to find a shocking crime scene with a dead body and multiple weapons. As they dig deeper, family tensions rise and unexpected connections emerge during investigations. Financial motives and shocking betrayals unfold, leading to a puppet master behind the chaos. What really happened that night? The truth is more sinister than it appears.
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Ted and Corrie's Routine
Ted Shaughnessy owned a jewelry store with his wife, Corrie, and was a skilled salesman.
He enjoyed interacting with customers and creating appealing displays.
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The Shooting
Ted and Corrie woke up to barking dogs and gunshots.
Corrie hid in the closet, called 911, and described a chaotic scene.
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Initial Investigation
Detectives found Ted dead with his dog, multiple bullet casings, and an untouched safe.
Corey claimed intruders killed Ted, but the scene raised suspicions.
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On an early morning in 2018, a woman in her 50s stood in the doorway of her bedroom in Austin, TX – firing off shots from her .357 revolver into the dark kitchen a few yards away. Someone in the kitchen fired back, and bullets whizzed past her and crashed into the wall. The woman saw shadows moving back and forth in the kitchen, but no matter where she aimed in the darkness, she just couldn’t hit anyone. She kept firing until she heard a CLICK – her gun was empty. Terrified, she turned and ran into her bedroom closet to hide. Later that morning, when detectives arrived at the house and walked into the kitchen, the scene looked almost like something out of an old western movie – like some insane shootout had taken place in this quiet, upscale neighborhood. The dead body of a middle-aged man lay on the floor, surrounded by multiple bullet casings from what looked like several different weapons. And a handgun rested near the dead man’s out-stretched hand. The woman who lived there described the wild events of the morning to the detectives, and she claimed people had broken into her house and killed her husband, but they must have run when she opened fire on them. But the detectives had no way of knowing what had really happened, and they immediately started to wonder if this entire crime scene – this massive shootout – had just been staged to cover-up a good old-fashioned case of a wife murdering her husband.
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