On the morning of September 3, 2021, a woman was found dead inside a vehicle in the 100 block of East Jefferson Street in Palmyra, Missouri. First responders pronounced 34-year-old Crystal Marie Lynn Cooper dead at the scene after being called about an unresponsive person inside a car at about 11:00 a.m. Investigators labeled the death suspicious and opened a homicide inquiry.

Authorities identified Raymond Gum Jr., a former romantic partner who had once lived with Cooper, as a person of interest. A multi-agency search led teams across state lines to Petersburg, Illinois, where Gum was located and taken into custody on September 4, 2021. Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, and by early 2022 a judge found probable cause to bind the case over for trial on charges connected to the shooting death of the young mother.

Does anyone have information about Cooper’s movements in Palmyra the week before September 3, 2021?