Tabitha Renee Justice, 46, was found dead on the afternoon of January 28, 2025, on a vacant residential property in the 200 block of Quaker Avenue in Jordan, Minnesota. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner determined she died from a single gunshot wound to the head and ruled the death a homicide. Friends and family had reported her missing shortly before her body was located in an outbuilding; they had been searching for her since before Christmas of the previous year. Tabitha had moved to Minnesota from Florida to be closer to her children and grandchildren and was remembered as beautiful and funny.

The property where her body was found was owned by Bobby & Steve’s Auto World and was to be sold to the Minnesota Department of Transportation for a highway exit project. Investigators from the Jordan Police Department and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension pursued leads and asked the public for information. Court documents allege Tabitha had been in a tumultuous relationship with 41-year-old John Joseph Peterson, known as Nico, and that investigators later linked a 9mm handgun found in Peterson’s possession to shell casings at the scene, with his fingerprints on the gun’s grip.

Did anyone in the Jordan or Hovland area have contact with Tabitha in the weeks before she disappeared or see her with Peterson?