Joshua Pavey was a 30-year-old man from Houston who worked in RV sales at Holiday World and was remembered as a good guy with a big heart. On the evening of December 19, 2020, he was last seen at a Main Event entertainment center in Katy and later on surveillance walking into 24-year-old Kelly Slayton’s apartment complex in northwest Harris County. Footage showed Slayton moving Pavey’s vehicle to a different parking spot; Pavey was not seen leaving the apartment again.

A maintenance worker reported a foul odor coming from Slayton’s unit on December 19 while delivering a package. When investigators searched the residence they found Pavey’s body in the bedroom; he had been killed by a gunshot wound to the neck. The day after Pavey was last seen, Slayton was arrested nearly 300 miles away in Comanche, Texas, after a road-rage shooting, a chase and a crash; troopers discovered the vehicle she was driving belonged to Pavey. Surveillance shows Slayton making multiple trips between her apartment and the car and later leaving the property in Pavey’s vehicle.

Based on those findings, Slayton was charged with murder and later tried and convicted by a jury for Joshua Pavey’s killing. Does anyone have observations about the surveillance timeline or the Comanche arrest that could help clarify what happened that night?