Complex sentence: Hours later her father Sheriff Hartman (Stephen Dorff) arrives to find her dead and when Verna arrives to protect her sons quickly takes Jed into his custody as revenge sending him to a mental asylum for disturbed youths.
Split into simpler sentences: Hours later her father Sheriff Hartman (Stephen Dorff) arrives to find her dead. As Verna arrives to protect her sons, Hartman quickly takes Jed into his custody as revenge, sending him to a mental asylum for disturbed youths.