A small-town family in Riverside, Alabama, was destroyed on May 22, 2022, when Florence Diane Vance, 51, and her two daughters, ages 16 and 13, were found dead of gunshot wounds in their home. Law enforcement responded after a man placed a suicidal 911 call saying he had done something terrible; officers encountered the man, later identified as Florence’s husband William Huntoon Vance, who was armed. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot at the scene, and the deaths of Florence and the girls were ruled a murder-suicide with William Vance as the sole perpetrator.

Florence worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor with the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services; her daughters attended schools in the Pell City School System, which offered counseling to students and staff. The motive for the killings was not stated in the initial reports.

Did anyone in the Riverside area know the Vance family or have information about their lives leading up to May 22, 2022?