Police: Ex-NFL player's mistress kills his wife then self

ATLANTA (AP) — A former NFL player's mistress, apparently jealous that he was taking his wife on a trip to Las Vegas, drove to his home near Atlanta, kidnapped her romantic rival and led officers on a chase into Alabama before killing the wife and herself, police said.

Lisa Brown, 46, showed up at the workplace of former Buffalo Bills player Buster Barnett on the morning of July 15 and was upset about the planned trip, Clayton County police spokeswoman Officer Charlene Watson-Fraser said. She then went to Barnett's home in Ellenwood and abducted his wife, 50-year-old Sandra Barnett.

Ruby Chester, a longtime friend of Sandra Barnett, said she was on the phone with her about 11:20 a.m. July 15 when someone knocked on Barnett's door. Chester told The Associated Press that she could hear a woman's voice yelling "Open this door! Open this door or I'm going to kill you!"

Chester said she heard Barnett talking to the woman: "Don't hurt me, ma'am! I don't know you!" Then she asked, "Are you Lisa Brown?"

Chester said she and Sandra Barnett had known each other for 10 years and kept no secrets from each other, so she knew that Buster Barnett, who she said is now an Atlanta school teacher, had been involved in an affair with a woman named Lisa Brown. Chester said Brown had harassed her close friend for at least a couple of years as Barnett tried to keep her marriage together.