IN 2005, Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Severance was reported missing by his wife, Wendi Mae Davidson.
His body was later found on a remote ranch two months later, and now, many want to know what involvement his wife had.
Who is Wendi Mae Davidson?
Davidson is known as a San Angelo, Texas, native who was accused of murdering her husband in 2005.
Prior to that, she worked at the Advanced Animal Care clinic on Sherwood Way as a veterinarian.
Davidson received her Veterinarian degree from Texas A&M University, during which time she also welcomed her first child, a boy from a previous relationship, reports.
By September 2004, she was married to Severance, whom she had met the year prior, and the couple soon welcomed two children together.
To the outside world, they were perceived to be a normal family until Severance went missing in 2005, which shocked the community.
What happened to Wendi's husband?
In January 2005, Davidson reported her husband missing.
His body was later found in a pond on a remote ranch about 20 miles outside of San Angelo, where the family had been living.
During the investigation, it was determined that Severance had died after he was poisoned with animal tranquilizers, and then stabbed 41 times posthumously, according to .
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At the time, Davidson told police that she had seen her husband the day prior, adding that he was worried about deployment.
"He was all concerned about -- he didn't want to be deployed, because he was afraid that something bad was going to happen," Davidson told police in 2005, according to ABC.
"And he kept saying like, 'Those guys that go over to Canada, it would be so easy just to go to Canada.'"
Davidson then tried to paint her husband as an alcoholic, ABC reports, however, there was never any evidence to suggest that Severance had a problem with drugs or alcohol.
Prior to finding the body, Severance's case was being investigated by the San Angelo Police Department, the Texas Rangers, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), who later took the lead after he did not show up for work, becoming AWOL.
When OSI took over, they were able to operate under different constraints than local police and had been given permission to place a tracking device in Davidson's car, according to ABC.
Their reasoning for the tracking device was that if Davidson was claiming Severance may be a deserter, then there would be a possibility she would help him hide.
OSI was later able to track her to the remote ranch and authorities found his body.
Following an analysis of Davidson's work computer's hard drive, authorities also found suspicious searches on the computer, including "decomposition of a body in water."
When confronted by police, Davidson called her brother, who was a game warden at the time, and told him that she had found Severance dead in the living room and moved his body to the remote ranch but did not kill him.
What was Wendi Mae Davidson convicted of?
Despite her statement, in October 2006, Davidson pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and two counts of tampering with evidence.
As a result, she was sentenced to 25 years in prison and has been there ever since.
Davidson has maintained her innocence, later telling ABC's Matt Gutman in 2021 that she did not kill her husband.
"I did what I did, I think it was horrible, I think that I made a bad choice, there were better choices to be made. But I still didn't kill him," Davidson told the 20/20 host.
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"What I did was horrible, there's no excuse. I mean I might have had crazy reasons in my head, but there's no excuse."
In 2019, Davidson was denied parole and is now scheduled to be released from Gatesville Correctional Facility in 2031, ABC adds.