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Woman Says Stranger Killed Husband, Then Cops Look at Her Device's Search Results

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In the modern world, it’s unrealistic to expect every user’s internet search can remain private. Unless special measures using technical know-how are employed, the government usually has  easy ways of obtaining search information from pretty much any device.

As the Waxahachie, Texas, Daily Light reports, this is just what a woman named Sandra Louise Garner found out after her husband’s mysterious murder, when investigators found she had searched the internet for “how to kill someone and not get caught.”

The case was made to look at first like a simple home invasion.

It would all unravel in the following days.

Garner said a masked man had entered the couple’s home in Maypearl, Texas, on Jan. 2, and fired two shots, then ordered her to empty a safe of $18,000.

Garner told police the invader said he had a work grudge against Sandra’s husband, John Garner, who was shot dead in the encounter.

But soon after, the police began expressing their hesitation to accept Sandra Garner’s version of events.

Investigators for the Maypearl Police Department thought they had reason to doubt Sandra’s story.

A Facebook page for the department posted on Jan. 4 stated: “As most of you know, there was a shooting on Creekview Circle early January 2nd. We have reason to believe that the shooting was NOT a ‘stranger on stranger’ home invasion. We do not believe that citizens in our city are in danger of any home invasion robbery from a person unknown to you.”

Would she have gotten away with it if police didn't find this search?

A search of the property revealed a .38 caliber revolver, believed to be the murder weapon, as well as “multiple electronic devices,” according to the Daily Light.

“It was on one of those devices, belonging to Sandra Garner, that an internet link related to ‘how to kill someone and not get caught’ was found,” the Daily Light reported.

Police matched the fatal bullet to the handgun they found. Garner was arrested on Jan. 10.

She was being held in the Ellis County Jail on a $2 million bond, the Daily Light reported.

There’s no word on whether she’s made an internet search for “How to escape jail.”

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Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard and is a husband, dad and aspiring farmer.
Jared has written more than 200 articles and assigned hundreds more since he joined The Western Journal in February 2017. He is a husband, dad, and aspiring farmer. He was an infantryman in the Arkansas and Georgia National Guard. If he's not with his wife and son, then he's either shooting guns or working on his motorcycle.
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