Most likely it was her husband. And her husband who left the note and all the other notes too.
Too soon to tell or somehow conclude this has ANYTHING to do with the Republican party! How in the world does someone decide this murder had anything to with politics?
The same way Susan Smith decided to say her babies were kidnapped by a black guy when she had already murdered them herself.
It is so unlikely that this Iraqi woman was murdered as a hate crime, likely the only place this figment exists is in the minds of the one who wrote the article. Notice how deftly this case was joined to Treyvon Martin. Not even clever in the way it was done.