The details of a love triangle which came before the shooting death of a six-year-old Louisiana boy last week can be revealed.
Autistic Jeremy Mardis died in a hail of gunfire in Marksville last week after his father Chris Few was pulled over by two local police officers who were moonlighting as city marshals at the time.
The two officers involved, Norris Greenhouse Jr, 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, have since been arrested and charged with the second degree murder of the child.
At a press conference last Thursday, 29-year-old Megan Dixon, who claimed to be the fiancée of 25-year-old Few, told media that the single father had previously had a run-in with Greenhouse after the cop began messaging her on Facebook.
She also revealed that she and Few had been arguing in the parking lot of local bar TJ's Lounge prior to the incident and that he had driven up beside her, begging her to come home, minutes before the shooting unfolded on Martin Luther King Drive.
But now Daily Mail Online can reveal that far from being confined to social media as Dixon claimed, the relationship between her and Greenhouse was physical and had been 'going on for months'.
It can also be disclosed that earlier in the day of the shooting, Dixon herself was stopped by police and charged with three traffic offenses, including a DUI.
Locals in Marksville, Louisiana say the mother-of-two, a meth user with a lengthy criminal record, had long been 'running around' with Greenhouse and is no longer engaged to Few.
However, as recently as last month, the 29-year-old was living with Few at his Pineville home and used the address to file domestic abuse charges against former boyfriend Joey Guillot, 35.
She is now believed to be staying at her parents' Marksville home, although when Daily Mail Online approached the family at their unkempt property, her father emerged and claimed 'she don't come here anymore'.
Dixon is also thought to be seeing a third man, identified as 'Fonzo' by locals, who is said to have been staying with her at her parents' address.
Last week, a tearful Dixon was filmed telling reporters that she and Greenhouse had known each other during their days at Marksville High School but said the social media messages from him had come out of the blue.
She then claimed Few had threatened to kill the cop after seeing the missives and had ordered him away from their Pineville home.
Dixon later told local newspaper Town Talk: 'No, [Few] didn't have a gun [on the day of the shooting] because I'm the reason why this all started. And I know what happened.'
But while Dixon claimed her contact with Greenhouse was a one-off, friends paint a very different picture and say that their dalliance is common knowledge in the small Louisiana town.
'That little girl [Megan] was running around with [Norris] Greenhouse,' said a man close to Dixon and Few. He asked not to be named because of a gagging order put in place by a judge on Monday.
'Chris [Few] and Greenhouse had had some run-ins about it before. He [Greenhouse] is a good kid. I think it was that other cop [Stafford] who turned him bad.
'Chris is a good guy too. It's just that f***ing girl.'
Buddy, 25, a close friend of Few, said: 'She's been telling everyone that they're engaged but they're not – they've been on and off for about four years now.
'The other night she was in here [TJ's Lounge] looking for pity but how can you do that when you're seeing other dudes?
'She and Greenhouse have been f***ing around. That's been going on for a few months. Everyone knows what everyone is doing here.'
Vern, who runs TJ's Lounge where Few and Dixon had argued in the run up to the shooting and was there on the night, added:
'They [Few and Dixon] were on and off, on and off. They used to be engaged but they weren't on the night it happened.
'He [Few] was chasing a girl he could never get because he was the only one looking for a thing [a relationship]. They had been arguing on the night it [the shooting] happened and she stormed off.'
Greenhouse, who is thought to have posted bond and is expected to be released from jail tomorrow pending trial, had a history of altercations with Few.
Dixon, in her statement to media on Thursday, claimed that Few had become enraged after seeing messages from Greenhouse sent to her on Facebook and had threatened to kill the officer.
However, locals say Few and Greenhouse have encountered one another on several other occasions in the past months.
Few also had a history of traffic violations and, according to his criminal record, was pulled over in July and charged with driving while intoxicated.
Other sources say that Greenhouse had a penchant for 'harassing' young women while a cousin told Daily Mail Online that he allegedly beat up his former partner Nicole Dauzat - the mother of his two young children.
Another local, 49-year-old Harold Dauzat of Hessmer – the town where Greenhouse grew up – said the cop was 'always causing trouble and getting away with it'.
Writing on a petition calling for justice for Jeremy Mardis, he also accused the 23-year-old of harassing the wife of a friend and said he would constantly pull her over 'for no reason'.
On the night of the shooting, Few is thought to have collected his son from a babysitter shortly after leaving TJ's Lounge following the argument with Dixon.
He is then believed to have pulled up alongside Dixon at a red light in a futile bid to persuade her to come home with him.
Greenhouse and Stafford then arrived and attempted to pull Few's car over. He is thought to have bumped the patrol car in an attempt to get away – a claim borne out by scratches and damage later discovered on the police vehicle.
Although body cam footage from a camera worn by another police officer, Sgt. Kenneth Parnell, is said to show the father putting his hands up and surrendering, Greenhouse and Stafford opened fire.
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The former Waffle House waitress was locked up in March on drugs and disorderly conduct charges, prompting Few to file for sole custody of Jeremy.
His petition was later signed off by District Judge William Bennett, who also approved a motion for Dixon to be given parental rights over Jeremy.
Dixon is herself a mother of two daughters, Macy, nine, and Lyla, seven, both with former partner Guillot, who lives with the girls, his new wife Ashley and their baby son at a gray-painted trailer home in Marksville.
But, like Jeremy's mother Catherine, Dixon also has a history of drug abuse and a criminal record that lists 26 separate charges ranging from possessing controlled substances to theft and DUI.
Dixon, who filed her most recent domestic abuse petition against Guillot early last month, also failed a court-ordered drug test on October 7.
Tests showed that the mother-of-two had a cocktail of drugs in her system, including opiates, amphetamines - meth - and 'benzos' – the latter provided to her on prescription.
Guillot, who split from Dixon in December 2013 according to the petition seen by Daily Mail Online, was also found to have drugs in his system – this time marijuana.
Dixon had also been hoping to recover custody of her two daughters which she lost following a separate court fight in 2012.
In the petition, she claims that Guillot hit the girls and left bruises on their arms and legs and said he 'shoves things in their faces when they don't clean their room good enough'.
She also said she now had a stable home – at Few's address – for the girls and was now able to 'effectively care for my children'.
Approached by Daily Mail Online at his trailer home on Tuesday night, Guillot became aggressive and refused to comment on the case.
