On January 16, 2015, the body of 37-year-old Juanita Davis was found in Saint Louis, Missouri, fatally shot on a city street. Investigators later concluded her killing was not random but part of a drug-related vendetta tied to a robbery of drugs and money in late 2014.

Prosecutors say local drug dealer Dwane Taylor recruited an associate, Joe Moreland Edger, to help identify and locate people Taylor believed connected to the theft. Federal documents state Edger drove Taylor to the scenes, provided the nine-millimeter used in the two slayings and received a .22-caliber gun in return. That spree also included the December 2014 killing of another woman, Erin Davis; the two victims were not related.

Court proceedings in March 2018 resulted in Edger, then 43, receiving a 30-year federal sentence after convictions for conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and being a felon in possession. Taylor’s state parole was revoked as a result of the investigation. Did anyone in Saint Louis know Juanita’s routines or see her in the days before January 16, 2015?