The wife of a Kentucky sheriff accused of murdering a local judge has poured water on one of the most sordid rumors related to the case that is roiling their small town, court documents show.

Last year, former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines was accused of murdering his close friend, District Judge Kevin Mullins. Surveillance camera video released by local police shows Stines shooting Mullins, 54, eight times in his own chambers after an intense confrontation on the afternoon of September 19.

Residents of Whitesburg, the small Eastern Kentucky town where the murder took place, speculated that Stines, 44, could have been motivated to kill Mullins because the judge was engaged in an illicit relationship with Stines’ teenage daughter.

The video of the shooting showed that Stines use

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