Soon after that, Butch walked into a Christmas party where he knew he'd find Lisa and her boyfriend. He saw them kissing, and a verbal confrontation followed. Later in December, she rode with Butch to sign papers for Butch's new building. Her sisters say they saw bruises on Lisa's arms and legs after that trip and that her eyeglasses were broken. Lisa told her sisters that Butch had beaten her and threatened to kill her.
Butch denies all of that.
Lisa filed for a divorce. In late February, the couple's divorce proceedings stalled. Butch asked Lisa to talk with him about the divorce, and she refused, Butch says. That made him mad. That night, Butch got into his car with a bottle of whiskey and a gun.