Sheri Coleman, 31, and her two sons, Garrett, 11, and Gavin, 9, were found brutally murdered in their home in Columbia, Illinois on the morning of May 5, 2009. Chris Coleman, 32, Sheri’s husband and the boys father, worked as televangelist Joyce Meyer’s head of security. He’d been receiving threatening messages from an unknown source warning him his family would be killed if he didn’t quit his job with the ministry. As the investigation unfolded, investigators learned that Chris Coleman was having an extramarital affair with his wife’s high school best friend, Tara. Was Chris’ family murdered by an unknown intruder or was it an elaborately planned scheme to start a new life?

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