He threw the hotel key out the window.

David Shearon had been seeing a woman on the sly, and that key — from Room No. 1812 at the Nashville Airport Residence Inn — was a memory of the last time he had seen her.

When he tossed it, Shearon had no idea it would become evidence in a murder case.

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