Norma Jean Schumacher Matko, 69, of Barnesville, Ohio, was found shot to death at her family home on November 26, 2020, a death that was later determined to be a homicide. Born October 21, 1951, in Wheeling, West Virginia, she was a retired registered nurse from Wheeling Hospital and active in the Barnesville Assumption Church, Barnesville Rotary Club, and the Schumacher Pumpkin Patch.

Investigators say Matko had been visiting her daughter when the kidnappings allegedly occurred in Cleveland and that both women were later transported to Belmont County, where Matko was killed. Thoue Nichole Bronowski had been reported missing on Thanksgiving; she was later found alive with a suspect, James Hawley, also known as Ahmad Ben David, who was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Louisiana. Two other men, Andrew Welch, 28, and Lester Foster, 27, were arrested in connection with the case.

Would anyone who knew Norma or has information about the events in Belmont or Cleveland around Thanksgiving 2020 please come forward?