Cynthia Arnold, 42, vanished from Cass County, Texas, on September 26, 2018, after leaving home to pick up her boyfriend, Donnie Combs, at his request. Her last contact was a call to her mother saying Combs had not arrived at the meeting spot; neither Arnold nor Combs were seen again. Days later Arnold’s truck was found abandoned and burned on a county road in neighboring Marion County.

The case remained unsolved until an October 2020 indictment naming Kevin Dewayne Shepard Jr. and his uncle Gary Edward Shepard on capital murder charges in connection with both disappearances. Prosecutors alleged Gary Shepard solicited the killing of Combs and that Kevin Shepard carried out the murders. At trial a female eyewitness testified she had been with Shepard at a rural trailer where methamphetamine was used, described meeting Arnold and Combs there twice, and said she saw Kevin Shepard shoot Arnold in her truck and then shoot Combs outside. She testified the bodies were burned in a fire pit; burned human bones and an earring matching Arnold’s were recovered but DNA could not be obtained from the remains.

Did anyone in the area recognize Arnold’s truck before it was found burned, or have additional details about where she and Combs were picked up that night?