In late 2018 a planned phone sale ended in a double homicide that left a Missouri family shattered. Igor Zhukov, 47, and his partner Michele Laws, 43, were reported missing after they didn’t return to their Olivette home on November 29, 2018. The couple, who had two daughters, were expected to take the children to piano and swimming practice that evening but never arrived.

Four days later their bodies were found inside their car at the bottom of a secluded ravine in Riverview, near North Riverfront Park in St. Louis. Both had sustained fatal gunshot wounds and investigators recovered four shell casings from the vehicle. Police say the meeting had been arranged with 22-year-old Deonta Johnson over a cell phone transaction connected to Zhukov’s business; Johnson was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of robbery, and a probable cause statement attributed the robbery and shootings to him.

If anyone knew the couple’s movements that day or saw their car between Olivette and Riverview on November 29, 2018, please share what you know.