Welcome to Arrest Stories. A Huntersville woman was arrested months after her husband's death was initially ruled a suicide, but police say her internet search history told a different story. Here's what may have happened.
On November tenth, twenty twenty-five, officers were called to a home along New Oak Lane in Huntersville, North Carolina, shortly before one p.m. for a reported suicide attempt. When they arrived, they found fifty-four-year-old Susan Michelle Perry kneeling on the floor and fifty-three-year-old Robert Joseph Perry, known as Joe, dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest in his office.
Susan Perry initially told officers she heard a thud that sounded like her husband had fallen. She said she found him lying on his side with blood before calling nine-one-one. A firearm was discovered on a nearby table with blood droplets surrounding a stool. The death was initially reported as a suicide.
However, police downloaded data from both Susan Perry's and her husband's cell phones as part of their investigation. The search history on Susan Perry's phone revealed troubling queries, including how much her husband's wedding ring was worth, what to do if your husband wants a divorce and you have no money, and information about center mass shots.
On Friday, February sixth, twenty twenty-six, Huntersville police reinterviewed Susan Perry. During this interview, she told officers that she and her husband had gotten into an argument about a divorce the night before his death on Sunday, November ninth. Perry then changed her story, telling investigators that during a struggle over the firearm, she advised while she was holding the firearm, it went off, striking Joe in the chest.
Susan Perry was arrested on February sixth and charged with murder. Her bond was set at one hundred fifty thousand dollars. The case highlights how digital evidence can contradict initial statements and lead to arrests months after an incident occurs.
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