Hannah Johnson met her match in Texas. 

That’s where the transplanted Maine native and single mother fell for Thomas Kamp, the George Clooney lookalike from Midlothian she planned to share the rest of her lifetime with. 

“They hit if off,” said Kamp’s brother, Todd. “They just celebrated their fifth anniversary (living together).” Marriage was on the horizon.

Johnson moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to  be close to her parents in 2009 after her son, Kade Johnson, was born in Boston. She was murdered along with her son, her father, her fiancé and his two sons by an earlier marriage.

Friends described Hanna as a shy person who loved gardening, animals and exercise – interests that created a natural bond with Thomas Kamp.

“She rode a yellow bus to school,” from her childhood home outside Farmington, Maine, said her mother, Cynthia Johnson. “She played soccer. She loved to bicycle.”

After earning an early childhood education degree from the University of Maine in Orono, the former Chi Omega sorority girl lived in Boston with friends before moving to Southern California and Texas. Like her mom and dad, she once owned an Airstream travel trailer.

“She was nice looking,” said the Kamps’ aunt, Beverly Woodruff. “They made a good-looking couple.”

Johnson was so dedicated to staying in shape that she worked out over her 30-minute lunch break, whatever the weather, from the Fort Worth insurance company where she worked as an adjuster.

But the tough training didn’t harden her heart. Her mother remembered the bleeding cat Hannah rescued from vicious interstate traffic around Fort Worth, putting her own life at risk. 

“She can’t stand to see anything hard happening to helpless animals,” Cynthia said. “She got him back to health.”

The Friday night, before the murders, Hannah and Thomas turned their Midlothian home into a lively birthday party celebration for Kamp’s son Nathan, who would turn 24 on Thanksgiving Day. The weekend camping trip to Tennessee Colony was a gift to him from the engaged couple. 

Woodruff can still see the hosts in her mind’s eye. “He treated her like a queen,” Woodruff said. “She treated him like a king.

They had the space he wanted. They had the garden she wanted.