Stephanie Lynn Autry, 34, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, was found dead in her home on October 27, 2015, after a nanny caring for her 3-year-old son requested a welfare check. Police reported a broken rear window, and Autry’s body was discovered in a locked bathroom with her head covered by a plastic bag and her body covered by a blanket. A hammer and possible bloodstains were found nearby.

Her husband, Lanson Paul Stalf, recently released from prison for a prior bank robbery conviction, was arrested in Batesville, Mississippi, after a multi-state manhunt and a subsequent bank robbery in Hernando, Mississippi. Court testimony described Stalf hitting Autry with a hammer, forcing her to reveal an ATM number, placing a plastic bag over her head and strangling her with picture-frame wire; the cause of death was listed as the plastic bag and the wire. Stalf pleaded guilty and received life without parole.

Autry worked as a nurse at Duke and was remembered at the hearing as a compassionate mother, daughter, and friend; family members spoke publicly about their grief and the effect on her young son. Did anyone in the Wake Forest area have information about Autry’s life or the days before October 27, 2015?