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On September 21, 1993, Grace Elizabeth White Lewis, 62, and her husband were ambushed at their farm in Bonne Terre, Missouri, by neighbors who had plotted to steal their cattle. While her husband mowed the lawn he was shot multiple times. Grace, who had been inside speaking on the phone with her daughter, went outside after hearing the commotion and was confronted by the attackers. A teenage boy named Brent Rousan opened fire, wounding her; the ringleader, William L. Rousan, then brought her back into the yard, covered her head with a garment bag and ordered Brent to fire a final shot that killed her. The men wrapped the bodies in a tarp, stole a VCR, jewelry and two cows, and fled.

For almost a year the farmhouse stood empty until a tip and trace of a pawned VCR led investigators to the Rousan family property in Washington County, about 30 miles away. There authorities found the couple buried in a shallow grave near a barn. William, Brent and Robert Rousan were arrested in connection with the killings; court actions followed.

Does anyone have memories of the Bonne Terre area in 1993 or information about Grace and her husband that could shed light on the days before they disappeared?