NASCAR Star Jimmie Johnson's In-Laws Faced Money Troubles Years Before Tragic Murder-Suicide, Court Docs Show

As police try to find the motive for the murder-suicide inside the home of Jimmie Johnson’s in-laws, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the elderly couple was once drowning in debt.

Court records show Jimmie's wife Chandra's parents, Terry Lynn Janway, 68, and her chiropractor husband, Dr. Jack Janway, 69, filed for bankruptcy after falling nearly $500k in debt —owing a whopping $174k to nearly 20 credit cards.

Investigators believe the NASCAR driver’s mother-in-law gunned down her husband, and their 11-year-old grandson Dalton Janway (Chandra's nephew) before turning the gun on herself inside their Muskogee home on June 26, 2023.

Police say Terry called 911 to report a “woman with a gun” in an apparent plan to lure police to the harrowing crime scene about 50 miles southeast of Tulsa.

“When officers arrived on scene they saw a subject laying in the hallway inside the front door,” a news release from the Muskogee Police Department said. “Shortly after arriving officers heard another gunshot from further inside the house.”

“Officers conducted a rescue of the subject laying inside the hallway and determined the subject was deceased,” the release continued. “Once enough officers arrived on the scene, a search of the residence was conducted, and two more subjects were found deceased inside the residence.”

Investigators did not find a suicide note at the scene and, at the time, little Dalton was living with his grandparents, Officer Lynn Hamlin told RadarOnline.com.

The Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner declined to release details of the fatal injuries as police try to develop a motive for the shooting that shocked the NASCAR racing family.

The tragedy is punctuated by the 2014 sky-diving death of Chandra’s brother, Jordan Janway, 27, who was killed in San Deigo when he was knocked unconscious after crashing into another parachutist, People Magazine reports.

Johnson, who is worth an estimated $160 million married into the Janway family in 2004.

But in 2009, his in-laws were drowning in debt – owing creditors $475K and facing foreclosure on a $146k mortgage, according to the federal bankruptcy documents obtained by RadarOnline.com.

The couple also owed $29k in five student loans presumable for their adult children, $32k for a 2007 Jeep Cherokee and $17k for a Dutchman travel trailer.

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