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On November 5, 2008, 30-year-old Cara Jo Roberts was at home in Harrisonville, Missouri, assembling a bed for her two-year-old son when an intruder broke in. The assailant, later identified as former Grandview police officer Jeffrey Moreland, sexually assaulted her, bound her with duct tape, forced her into a full bathtub and shot her in the back of the head. Her husband Jeff and their son Carter were not home at the time.

Investigators collected DNA and a fingerprint from the scene but had no match for nearly three years. A reward of $35,000 was offered and the Missouri State Highway Patrol assisted the Harrisonville Police Department. In 2011 Moreland became a suspect in the Kansas City murder of 75-year-old Nina Whitney, and his DNA matched the evidence from the Roberts crime scene. Moreland was later convicted in September 2013 of first-degree murder in Cara Roberts’s death and sentenced in October 2013 to life without parole plus 50 years for armed criminal action.

Did anyone who knew Cara or saw unfamiliar activity around her Harrisonville home in November 2008 come forward with information?