Joe Hunter

The deputy's report said he did not observe any signs of a struggle.

There was an open suitcase and a note.

Had Joanna taken her own life?

Mark Lewis, the 36-year-old pastor of the Fellowship Baptist Church, was handcuffed, placed in the back of a patrol car, and briefly questioned.

He said his wife did not appear to be depressed, has no history of mental illness, and has never attempted suicide.

The husband is saying, my wife did this out of the blue.

In the report, Mark said he last saw his wife at 1 p.m.

and the church member who called 911 said he and Mark had been outside the house playing basketball and talking about their faith starting at 3 p.m.

until Mark went inside and found Joanna dead.

Joanna's mother, Patricia, knew nothing of what was unfolding at her daughter's house that night.

She wasn't called.

A day later, a deacon from the church went to see her.

At around the same time, Joe, a Sacramento, California firefighter, was taken aside by the captain of his house.

First, the gut punch.

And then, almost instantly, one thought, one name.

What did he do to her?

Mark Lewis.

A few weeks later, when Patricia and her late husband spoke to an officer, he showed her the note.

Joanna had tried to leave Mark many times before, says Patricia.

There was a history of abuse and a cycle that began not long after the couple started seeing each other in high school.