At Rest

Deadly force
Responders found Cartmell already dead on the couch, with a bullet wound in her head, in the house she shared with her active-duty Nashville police department husband. His story of her supposed accidental suicide fell apart very quickly. Prosecuted for second-degree murder he was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison. He appealed and lost.
This record exists so that Shari Bethel Cartmell, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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