Seventeen-year-old Zachary Wade Sutton was found dead from gunshot wounds in a Clinton, Missouri home alongside his mother, 46-year-old Sandra Kay Sutton. Family members returning from work discovered the two bodies.

Police identified 47-year-old James Barton Horn, Jr., Sandra Sutton’s ex-boyfriend, as the primary suspect. Weeks earlier Sandra had escaped from Horn’s residence in Sedalia and reported she had been held captive in a wooden box; Horn had been charged with kidnapping, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon but was not in custody. Sandra’s car was later found near Horn’s home and surveillance footage reportedly showed a person believed to be him leaving the vehicle. A subsequent standoff ended when James Horn Jr. was killed in a gun battle with police.

Zachary was a junior at Clinton High School, involved in the ROC program and had planned to enlist in the Army. Who knew Zachary or Sandra and can share information that might clarify what happened in the days before their deaths?