Carol Ann Fradette, 29, was found dead at her Woodbury, Vermont, home on October 30, 2018, after emergency crews responded to a fire on Bliss Road. Investigators determined both Fradette and her 48-year-old boyfriend, David Thompson, had been killed before the residences on the property were set alight. An autopsy determined Fradette died of blunt impact and a gunshot wound; Thompson had been shot multiple times. The couple’s three dogs were also found shot and killed at the scene.

A multi-year Vermont State Police investigation tied the killings to a suspected drug-debt dispute. Evidence led to an arrest warrant in November 2021 for Manuel Gomez, then 32, of Hartford, Connecticut, who investigators say supplied large quantities of heroin to Thompson and was allegedly owed more than $20,000. Gomez was charged with aggravated murder and first-degree arson; at the time the warrant was issued he was in federal custody in New York on an unrelated firearms conviction.

Are there details about that night or the people involved that local readers can add to the record?