A week after Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver shot and killed his wife, he placed an urgent phone call to the husband of the sole witness in the shooting.

“Tommy Lee, it’s Tex,” McIver said in the voicemail for Tom Carter Jr. “Sir, just let me be plain. Dani is about to send me to prison. Please erase this—this voice mail message—but call me right away. Y’all have no idea the problem this is causing. It’s innocent, but it’s absolutely nuclear to me. Please, please call me.”