On the morning of July 22, 2020, emergency responders were called to a home on Fairways Circle in Creve Coeur, Saint Louis County, where 35-year-old Grace Holland was found dead in the shared bedroom she occupied with her fiancé, Robert Daus. Holland had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head. Daus, a captain with the Maryland Heights Fire District, was at the residence and told investigators Holland had hugged him, then gone to the bedroom and shot herself. The St. Louis County Medical Examiner initially ruled the death a suicide.

Holland’s family disputed that finding, pointing to scene details they said did not fit a self-inflicted wound: the fatal entry at the left temple despite Holland being right-handed, the body position, and a firearm found near her right hand. The family filed a wrongful death suit against Daus in 2023 alleging controlling behavior, abuse, and a missing engagement ring worth about $20,000. The Creve Coeur chief later asked the St. Louis County Police Department to review the original probe, and the case’s status was changed to a suspicious death. No criminal homicide charges have been filed and Daus continues to say the shooting was self-inflicted; detectives are still reviewing witness statements and forensic evidence.

Does anyone have information about Grace Holland’s last hours, the scene on Fairways Circle, or the civil case against Daus?