Katesia Marshae Weathers was 26 and living in Pine Bluff in spring 2007 when she vanished after a long history of domestic violence. She had reported multiple incidents of battery by her boyfriend, Mario Scott, and in January 2007 told police he had stripped and beaten her until she collapsed. With help from a shelter she filed for a protective order; the hearing was rescheduled for May 22, 2007, but neither she nor Scott attended and the order was dismissed.

On May 22, 2007, about 2:30 p.m., Katesia was last seen walking on West 16th Street after leaving her grandmother’s house in the 3200 block of West 16th Avenue to visit a friend near 17th Avenue and Juniper Street. Her purse was left at her grandmother’s home and her family reported her missing on May 25. That evening firefighters answered two separate arsons at the house where Scott was staying. Investigators later concluded Scott beat Katesia to death, disposed of her body in woods, then returned and burned her remains in a barrel. Scott was charged and later pleaded no contest; Katesia’s body has never been found.

Did anyone in Pine Bluff in May 2007 see Katesia walking toward 17th Avenue and Juniper Street or notice suspicious activity around the house where Scott was staying?