Marcus Gardner, 29, and his fiancée Christina Virginia Smith, 30, were found dead from gunshot wounds inside their Winder, Georgia, home on Bush Chapel Drive after a welfare check on March 5, 2022. The last contact family reported was a text Christina sent to her mother; she also failed to show up for work at a local hotel. The couple had become engaged in December 2021 and were reportedly planning to buy a home and take a vacation.

Investigators focused on a 25-year-old acquaintance, Martell Lamont Scott, who had been living with the couple for several weeks and disappeared after the killings along with Marcus Gardner’s Ford Escape. Scott was located in Missouri on March 14, 2022, in possession of the stolen vehicle and was arrested. He was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of felony murder, and one count of possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime and was returned to Georgia to await prosecution.

Did anyone in the Winder area know Scott, Gardner, or Smith or see the Ford Escape in early March 2022?