Specialists like roofers and sheetrock installers can have some of the worst problems.

The Contessas used electricians, plumbers, framers, sheetrock installers and foundation contractors who called for town inspections at appropriate times.

Hill worked as a nurse's assistant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, while Smith was a Sheetrock installer, WAPT said.

Arliss Undergroot was a Sheetrock installer with tattoos up and down both arms, a shaved head, and enough piercings in his head to have set off the metal detectors at the courthouse.

“I was framer, Sheetrocker, carpenter and cabinetmaker,” he said.