Suddenly heads were turning for all the wrong reasons. Martin was put in handcuffs, arrested, and publicly taken into custody. He would never fly again.
The charge? The triple murder of three of his neighbours. It was an enormous fall from grace, and it was only going to get worse for Martin. His past was about to catch up with him.
Four years earlier, Martin had been living in the small town of Pembroke, Kentucky. After a prestigious army career flying helicopters, Martin was in emotional turmoil.
His marriage to his wife, Joan, had ended and the split had turned bitter. Martin had also discovered that Joan had been married to another man when they wed in 2004.
She would go on to be charged with bigamy and was given five years “pretrial diversion” – a supervision program. But in turn, Joan accused Martin of being controlling and abusive.
As Joan moved out of the family home with her son from a previous relationship, neighbour Calvin Phillips, who lived across the road, helped Joan with her belongings. Calvin lived with his wife Pamela.
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