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experiencing serious financial difficulties, which was putting incredible strain on the marriage and surely exacerbating her depression.
    The family got some welcome good news when Kevin found a job as an appraiser with the Angelina County Appraisal District, a job that paid well for the area. Whether or not they knew about his criminal history and time in prison is unknown. As an indicator of what he might have made in 2005, in 2012, Chief Appraiser Tim Chambers asked the appraisal board for permission to hire two additional appraisers. The two new employees would cost the county approximately $130,000, which included salary, benefits, equipment, and car allowance. That’s roughly $65,000 a year apiece. Considering that a policeman earns in the low $30,000s, and a teacher with a college degree begins in the mid-$30,000 range, $65,000 is a good salary, especially for Angelina County.
    Kevin Saenz’s annual salary was likely more than many families in Angelina County lived on per year. However, the couple was supporting their eight-year-old daughter as well as Saenz’s teenage son, Jacob, from her previous marriage, for whom she hadn’t received financial help until on January 23, 2006, when the Texas Attorney General filed a motion to make Chris D. Hopper pay child support.
    However, the extra income didn’t seem to help. On Friday, December 15, 2006, Green Tree Servicing and Conseco Finance Corporation filed a lawsuit in Angelina County against the accounts, contracts, and notes of one Kim C. Hopper; in other words, she was being sued for nonpayment. With all of these financial strains in play, the family had a hard time making it, even with Kevin’s relatively generous paycheck.
    And just when Saenz really needed job stability, she wouldn’t find it at the Children’s Clinic. On March 20, 2007, the clinic reprimanded her for missing eight and a half days of work without calling in. But the reprimand didn’t help, and after working there for six months, her last day there was May 29, 2007.
    That wouldn’t be the last the Children’s Clinic heard from Kimberly Saenz. After they fired her for basically not showing up for work, she filed for unemployment compensation. Some people said she was actually surprised when it was denied.
    At this point in Kimberly Saenz’s life, the question was not if she’d go down, but how far, and the trip continued. Whether financial troubles were the tipping point or not, on June 7, 2007, Kevin and Kimberly Saenz split up. This in itself wasn’t all that unusual, but the police don’t usually get involved when a couple separates.
    Lufkin police officer Sterling Glawson responded to a disturbance call on Tulane Drive in Lufkin. When he arrived, he was told that an argument had begun between Kimberly and Kevin Saenz at their home in Pollok. Kevin had fled from the home to his mother’s boyfriend’s home on Tulane Drive, but Kimberly had followed him. In a scuffle, he was injured.
    Glawson arrested Kimberly Saenz for assault causing bodily injury and issued her a criminal trespass citation. She spent the night in jail and was released the next day on a $1,500 attorney bond, but once out, she discovered that her husband had gotten an Emergency Magistrate’s Protective Order against her. Between June and August 2007, Kim and Kevin worked things out, temporarily at least.
    With her employment record as a nurse in Angelina County showing that her longest stint was the six months at the Children’s Clinic—and showing her five no-rehires—it seemed a long shot that anyone would hire her again. However, the State Board of Nursing still hadn’t investigated that charge from Woodland Heights in Lufkin. A check of Saenz’s nursing license didn’t show those charges.
    Against the odds, Saenz was hired in August 2007 as an LVN, or licensed vocational nurse, working for the DaVita Lufkin Dialysis Center. Kevin Saenz