In late summer 2015 a Kansas City house fire led to a homicide investigation. On August 23 firefighters responded to a blaze in the 300 block of Oakley Avenue and, after extinguishing flames focused in a bedroom, found 61-year-old William Paul Simmons dead. Investigators determined the death was not accidental.

Simmons had lived in Kansas City about twenty years and worked as a mechanic. In the days before the fire he’d been having issues with someone about his black 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe, which was missing from the home after the blaze. The vehicle was later recovered abandoned and crudely painted; clothing and a receipt from a food stamp card registered to Shameece S. Mosby were inside, and DNA linked Mosby to pants found in the car.

Mosby, who had known Simmons about four months after meeting him at a casino and who said he had bought the Santa Fe for her to drive, was arrested in February 2017. Charges were amended in March 2017 to include second-degree murder and armed criminal action after authorities say she confessed to shooting Simmons and then setting the fire to cover the crime. Did anyone in the neighborhood or who knew Simmons notice the Hyundai or either of them around Oakley Avenue in August 2015?