Key Highlights
- More than a month after a woman was found fatally shot inside an Arizona home, investigators say newly uncovered evidence has taken the case far beyond state lines and directly to a California farming tycoon.
- A homicide investigation that began in Pinetop, Arizona, has expanded into a multi-agency case and the arrest of 63-year-old Michael Abatti of El Centro, California. Investigators with the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office have released new details in the killing of 59-year-old Kerri Ann Abatti, who they said died from a gunshot through a window at her Arizona home on Nov.
- 20.
- Authorities say Michael Abatti, her estranged husband, was arrested on Dec.
- 23 and is charged with first-degree murder in connection with her death.


