On the morning of September 17, 2015, a fire at a rural Platte, South Dakota home revealed the bodies of the Westerhuis family. Ten-year-old Jaeci Claire Westerhuis, a White fifth-grade student at Platte-Geddes Community School, was found among the victims. Autopsy results showed that Jaeci and the rest of the family died from shotgun wounds rather than the blaze.

Investigators concluded that Jaeci’s father, Scott Westerhuis, shot his wife Nicole and their four children, then set the house on fire and killed himself with the same shotgun. The deaths were officially ruled a murder-suicide. The case was linked to a financial scandal: Scott and Nicole had been implicated in embezzling funds from the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, and the killings came hours after the state terminated a major contract with the cooperative.

Does anyone have information about Jaeci, her school, or the family that could add context to what happened that day?