Cynthia estimated that around 8:30 p.m., Thomas, Austin, Nathan and Kade headed into the woods with Hudson to gather more firewood. Hannah, Carl and Cynthia stayed behind.

Cynthia said they didn't think anything of the two rounds of gunshots they heard over the time Thomas and the boys were gone, initially thinking they may have been hunting squirrels.

In Cynthia's retelling, Hudson returned from the woods alone. He sat silently on an all-terrain vehicle at first, not answering when the Johnsons asked him where the others were. Cynthia said Hannah ran to Tom's car, then started yelling "Daddy!" to Carl before Hudson fired two shotgun blasts. The first didn't hit anyone, but the second hit Carl in the hip, and he fell onto the steps of the trailer that Hannah had ran to.

"I just was wondering what I could do, and, but knowing William was in there ... I would be the end of any witness," Cynthia testified.

Carl collapsed onto the trailer steps, yelling, "Cindy, I need your help, I need you now." The fire out and the sky dark, Cynthia dropped to the ground and hid by the camp chairs, listening as her husband and daughter were killed.