Shawnda Slote-Reed, a 28-year-old White woman from Fulton, Missouri, was found shot in her bedroom and dead inside her home on June 7, 2005. Her young children discovered her that morning and the neighborhood on Tanglewood Way became a crime scene. Investigators reported no clear signs of burglary and no obvious drug connection, calling the killing strikingly personal and unusually quiet in its aftermath.

Fulton investigators pursued tips for years, revisiting and resubmitting evidence for laboratory testing as technology advanced, but the case never produced a chargeable suspect. In 2020 reporting linked the case to William Chris Niemet, who had been charged in an unrelated 1991 killing; police said Niemet had been considered a person of interest and had not been eliminated, though other possible people remained under investigation.

No arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction in Shawnda Reed’s homicide has been publicly announced. If anyone knew Shawnda, her routine, or saw something in Fulton around June 7, 2005, please come forward with information.