On November 1, 2014, family members checking on 27-year-old Francisco Javier Vargas III, known as Frankie, found him inside his Parkville-area home in Platte County, Missouri, lying face down in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators recovered numerous shell casings inside the residence and learned Vargas had allegedly been selling marijuana from the house.

Witnesses reported a gray Dodge Charger at the scene around the time of the shooting; that vehicle led investigators to a relative of Zakary F. Mergy. Cell-tower records placed the cell phones of Mergy and an associate, Kevin Hardin, in the immediate area during the killing, and Mergy later directed detectives to a buried Springfield .40-caliber XDM handgun in his mother’s Kansas City, Kansas, backyard. Ballistics linked that gun to the casings and bullets recovered at Vargas’s home, and DNA testing identified Mergy as a major contributor and Hardin as a minor contributor. Mergy was arrested and later convicted; charges against Hardin were filed in August 2017.

Did anyone who knew Frankie or who lived near Twin Springs Road see a gray Dodge Charger or notice suspicious activity around November 1, 2014?