Vanessa Pruitt returned home from a few days out of town to find her husband and a stranger shot to death in the basement rec room.

Was her husband, a defense attorney and former prosecutor, the victim of someone from an old case seeking revenge?

Who was the other dead man and what was he doing there?

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The Real Estate Rancor investigation began on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, and will run for about nine weeks.

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