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Sarah Hartsfield called her husband an “empty person” and derided his “financial irresponsibility” in Facebook messages.
“He was just looking for a meal ticket and way back to a lifestyle he could never attain on his own’s own, she wrote in the messages.
Authorities in Minnesota had previously said she killed a former partner in self-defense in 2018.
Sarah Hartsfield posted on Facebook that she felt "numb and lost" without her husband.
A neighbor says she seemed more like a divorced housewife than a soldier.
A friend who served with her in Iraq says she was “in shock” over the arrest.
Her first ex-husband says she continued to “interject” herself in his life, even after he remarried.
David Bragg met Sarah Hartsfield at Fort Hood, where she was stationed and he was working for a solar company.
She moved to Minnesota and began working on a house with Bragg on a large plot of land.
After a couple of months, Laura Bragg said, her family started seeing “flaws and cracks” in the relationship.
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