White pillars at a court house

Children find mother dead in Fort Worth home. Their dad is accused of killing her.

Children find mother dead in Fort Worth home. Their dad is accused of killing her.

In May 2011, Shalen Gardner pleaded guilty to terroristic threat of a family member, a Class A misdemeanor, and cruelty to animals/torture, a state jail felony.
He received two years deferred adjudication probation in both cases…
A year later, in February 2017, Shalen Gardner was ordered into SWIFT probation (Supervision with Intensive Enforcement), a stringent program aimed at probationers who have repeatedly violated the rules and are likely candidates for revocation.
Still, the bond violations continued.