On February 18, 2014, 10-year-old Hailey Owens was walking home from a friend’s house in Springfield, Missouri, when she was abducted in daylight. Witnesses reported a man in a truck who lured her under the pretense of asking for directions, then drove off; neighbors chased the vehicle and recorded its license plate, which led police to a nearby residence.

Investigators found Hailey’s body in the basement inside two trash bags placed in a plastic storage container. An autopsy determined she had been raped and died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head; there were binding marks on her wrists. Police recovered child pornography, multiple firearms, handwritten sexual fantasy stories involving young girls, and Hailey’s blood on a shirt. Surveillance footage showed the purchase of bleach and drain cleaner and a recorded disposal of Hailey’s clothing in a dumpster.

Authorities charged 45-year-old Craig Wood, a former middle school coach and teacher’s aide, with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and rape. Anyone who knew Hailey, was in the neighborhood that afternoon, or has information about the abduction is asked to come forward.