Diana Ault was 26 when she was shot dead in her Independence, Missouri, home on the evening of January 31, 1994. She had returned from a Super Bowl watch party with her two young children, a four-year-old son and a six-month-old daughter, and was found in a hallway with a single gunshot wound to the neck. Her husband was out of town for work at the time.

Police located the family’s red Pontiac Grand Prix running in a nearby church parking lot; inside were a .44 magnum, ammunition, and a spent shell casing. The weapon was later confirmed as the murder gun and was owned by Diana and her husband. Officers entered the unlocked house after hearing a baby crying and found the children physically unharmed; the son told police someone shot mommy and that he had been put in a closet before the killer fled in the car.

Investigators noted the bedroom had been ransacked, suggesting someone searched for the handgun. Suspicion focused on Carolyn Heckert, reported to have been involved with Diana’s husband; Heckert was later charged in an unrelated 1989 murder but those charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. The FBI announced a cold-case review and re-examination of physical evidence, including DNA testing, in 2022. No one has been convicted for Diana’s murder.

Does anyone have information about Diana, the family, or the night of January 31, 1994?