Melissa Nicole Barto was 26 when she was last seen on June 8, 2017, after leaving her job at Miller’s Quality Meats in Butler, Pennsylvania. She was expected at her young daughter’s kindergarten graduation but never arrived; her mother reported her missing when she failed to show.

Investigators say an argument in the car with her boyfriend, Ishemer Dwayne Ramsey of Lyndora, turned deadly. Court records and investigators allege Ramsey shot Barto while she sat in the passenger seat. Authorities allege Ramsey first hid her body in woods in Butler County, then enlisted an acquaintance, James Howard-George. Surveillance showed Ramsey and Howard-George cleaning the passenger area of Ramsey’s car; police later found the passenger seat and carpeting removed, bleach odor, suspected blood in the roof liner, and a .45-caliber slug recovered from the passenger door.

Police allege the men bought rope, bleach, and a tarp at a Walmart, retrieved Barto’s body and moved it to Lawrence County, where an accelerant was used and her burned remains were found by a farmer on June 12, 2017. Ramsey was arrested and charged with homicide and related counts; other men were charged in connection with disposing of the body. Does anyone have information about Melissa’s last known movements or the vehicle seen that day?