Two people were killed on a busy Branson street in late May 2021. On May 29, 39-year-old Richard Rocky McMahan and 38-year-old Krystle Layne Buhl were fatally shot in the 1800 block of West 76 Country Boulevard, a central entertainment corridor in the tourist town.

A multiagency investigation involving the Branson Police Department, the Taney County Sheriff’s Office, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the FBI and the ATF identified a primary suspect. Authorities arrested 34-year-old Miguel Angel Melendez-Torres in the Boston area on October 5, 2021, and extradited him to Missouri on charges that include two counts of second-degree murder, first-degree armed robbery and armed criminal action. A 26-year-old woman alleged to be his associate was arrested in St. Augustine, Florida, on September 30, 2021, and faces a first-degree armed robbery charge related to an armed robbery in downtown Branson on May 26, 2021.

What did readers in Branson see or hear around May 26–29 that might help fill in the timeline leading up to these killings?