Nunn Documents Show A Different Side

{Kentucky}...In documents released last week, family and friends of former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn say he had lost a dream job, was drinking hard and searching the Internet for women in the months before his former fiancee, 29 year old Amanda Ross, was fatally shot on September 11, 2009. The man who once mingled among Kentucky's political elite pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in June and was sentenced to life without parole after facing a potential death penalty if his case had gone to trial. Nunn's daughters, Mary Elizabeth Nunn and Katharine Courtney Nunn, told police their father's drinking became worse after Ross had obtained an emergency protective order against him, and he had lost his job as deputy secretary of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Mary and Katharine Nunn told police their father had been depressed for months, his health had declined and he had told them to be strong if anything happened to him. They say they didn't consider him suicidal but had talked to their father's friend, Dr. Phillip Bale, about having him committed. Bale replied that no judge would commit their father based on the behavior he observed when he had dinner with Nunn the night before Ross' death. Alex Redgefield, a longtime friend of Ross' who considered Nunn a "complete sociopath, told police Ross was scared of Nunn "all of the time" and even showered with a gun close by. Redgefield mentioned a walkway beside Ross' townhouse that she had referred to as "O.J. Alley" because Nunn had allegedly used it on at least two occasions to peek into her home.