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Kerri Ann Abatti was found shot in her Arizona home amid a divorce with her husband, a prominent farmer in California’s Imperial Valley.

Investigators are examining the divorce proceedings as one of several leads.

Kerri Ann Abatti left her husband a note when she moved from their family home in the California farming town of El Centro to a house they owned in Arizona’s White Mountains in August 2023.

About a month and a half later, court records show, she texted her husband, Mike Abatti — a wealthy farmer from one of the most prominent families in the Imperial Valley — that she was filing for divorce.

The divorce filings show the pair became embroiled in a contentious court battl

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