Laura Ann Cooley, 59, was reported missing after leaving the home she shared with her mother on December 20, 2018. Family members grew concerned when she did not return or make contact. On December 23 a passerby found her body lying face-down on Eastwood Drive, off Candler Road in Decatur, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound under her armpit.

Investigators established Laura was last seen with a 67-year-old acquaintance, Walther Threat; family members said they saw the two leave a home on Eastwood Drive together. Photographs taken between 11 p.m. on December 22 and 2 a.m. on December 23 show Laura in the same clothes she wore when found. Neighbors reported hearing a loud argument and a car door closing that night, and one witness reported hearing a gunshot.

Threat denied seeing Laura and gave conflicting accounts of his whereabouts, but police arrested him on January 14, 2019 and charged him with murder in connection with her death. Did anyone in the Decatur area see Laura or know of her movements that night?