A search of court records indicates the woman who was killed Saturday had asked for a domestic restraining order against her husband. In her request, she said that he had threatened to shoot and kill her. As we're reported previously, Terry Crit Marley is recovering from a severe knife wound at Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he is listed in fair condition.
Marley's estranged wife, Linda Diane Marley, 46, was found in her yard in the 400 block of Old Lankford Road about 12:30 a.m., said Capt. Steve Cabe of the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office. She had been shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. No charges have been filed. Cabe said that investigators are talking to officials in the district attorney's office about possible charges.
The Wintson-Salem Journal reports court records show that Linda Marley filed a complaint May 31 in which she said that her husband had been released from jail on bond, went to her home and started arguing. He had threatened to kill her, shoot her, and beat her to death, she wrote. "This goes on every time he gets drunk," she wrote in her complaint. "In the past he has beat me, stoned me, choked me, hit me with a plate that cut my arm open. Has pulled guns and knives on me." She said he had threatened to commit suicide if she didn't stay with him.
A judge granted a temporary domestic protection order that required Terry Marley to stay at least 250 feet from her and to surrender any firearms he owned. The case was dismissed June 9 when neither showed up for the trial date in District Court.

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