In the quiet woods of Winston County, Alabama, a grim discovery was made on a remote logging road near Double Springs. Inside a car, the bodies of four individuals from Savannah, Tennessee, were found, each having succumbed to shotgun blasts. Among them was Robert Samuel Hamrick, a 30-year-old male. The others were identified as his 39-year-old ex-wife, Kristie Hunt Campbell Hamrick, her 38-year-old brother, Andy Keith Hunt, and a 30-year-old family friend, Kevin Carey.
The scene, at first glance, appeared to be a horrific act of violence, and initial reports leaned towards a triple murder-suicide. Investigators found handwritten notes from all four individuals, proclaiming their innocence of impending child pornography charges and detailing their funeral wishes. This led authorities to believe the deaths were the result of a suicide pact. Robert Hamrick and his ex-wife, Kristie, had been facing charges of child pornography and molestation in Tennessee.
Further investigation by the Winston County Sheriff's Office suggested a different sequence of events, pointing to a murder-suicide. It is believed that Andy Keith Hunt shot and killed the other three before taking his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun. Another report from the Winston County Sheriff indicated that Robert Hamrick was the one who shot the others before killing himself. Friends and family had been aware of the group's talk of a suicide pact, with Robert Hamrick's sister and a friend of Kevin Carey both reporting this to authorities. The four had been living together in a mobile home in Savannah, Tennessee, which had been searched by deputies in connection with the child pornography investigation just weeks before their deaths. The tragic end to their story unfolded approximately 100 miles south of their Tennessee home, leaving behind a troubling mystery.
