Marlene Postell Johnson mistakenly sent a text message in July 2013 to a 15-year-old making threats against someone she thought was Shirley Goodnight Pierce.Two days later, Pierce was found dead inside her Kannapolis home. Rowan County investigators have said Johnson killed Pierce, 62, because she believed Pierce was having an affair with her estranged husband.
Alex Norton, now 20, testified that on the night of July 21, 2013, he received a text from a number that court testimony showed belonged to Marlene Johnson. Norton said he didn’t recognize the number but had received previous messages from the same number.
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