On February 7, 2013, 39-year-old Misty D. Cole and 43-year-old Shannon D. James were found shot to death on the first floor of a South Pacific Street apartment building in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Police responded late that night after reports of gunfire and a man fleeing the area; investigators focused on a neighbor in the complex, 22-year-old Kenneth D. Bell Jr., after witnesses described an earlier verbal altercation behind the building.

According to the investigation, Bell retreated to his apartment after the dispute, retrieved a firearm, then returned and shot James; Cole was shot when she opened her apartment door. Bell was arrested, and a jury convicted him in January 2015 of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action, receiving life without parole plus a consecutive life term.

In May 2016 the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled detectives had violated Bell’s rights by continuing interrogation after he invoked counsel, concluding the confession should have been suppressed and reversing the first-degree murder convictions while upholding that sufficient evidence supported second-degree murder. Does anyone have memories of that apartment complex or the night of February 7, 2013 that might shed light on what happened?