A woman facing three counts of murder for the deaths of her husband and two daughters appeared in court on Wednesday afternoon.

Police provided extra security for Courtney Taylor's hearing. Sheriff Colan Harrell said there was no threat of violence, but that deputies provided extra security as an added precaution.

Courtney Taylor is charged with the murders of her husband and two daughters. There were at least four police cars and trucks escorting Taylor to judicial center.

Taylor's case was the only on the one o'clock docket for Whitley County District Court. For the hearing, officials placed four officers inside the courtroom with two more outside. There were also several officers outside the courthouse.

Taylor waived her right to appear in the courtroom.

A KSP detective testified that Taylor told them she shot her husband Larry over a $264,000 cash settlement she had deposited in August that had been depleted. He also testified that Taylor wrote a six-page letter. In it, they said Taylor that shot her kids "because she didn't want them growing up without a mother."

All three victims were found in their beds with gunshot wounds to the head.

The judge presiding over the case found a 'clear case for probable cause' to send the case to a grand jury.