On July 21, 2019, 34-year-old Nick Diemel and his 24-year-old brother Justin drove from their Shawano County, Wisconsin home to a farm in Braymer, Missouri, intending to collect about $250,000 tied to a cattle-feeding arrangement. The brothers ran Diemel’s Livestock and had sent cattle to farmer Garland Joseph Nelson to pasture and sell; the business relationship had broken down after months of missed payments and a damaged bad check.

Their rented pickup was later found abandoned in a commuter lot in Holt, Missouri, and a search of the Nelson farm produced evidence that the brothers had been ambushed and shot on arrival. According to authorities, their bodies were placed in 55-gallon barrels and burned, with some remains found in a manure pile on the Braymer property and other remains later recovered in a bucket inside a livestock trailer in Lincoln County, Nebraska. Garland Nelson was arrested and charged in connection with the deaths and with alleged fraud tied to the cattle operation.

Are there readers who knew the Diemel brothers, worked with them, or have information about the cattle transactions or their trip to Missouri?