On May 28, 2018, 29-year-old Jaclyn Dawn Zabel was found with a gunshot wound to her head at a home on Wagner Road, west of Caldwell, Idaho. She was taken to a Boise hospital and died the next morning on May 29. The man who shot her, 37-year-old Ian Stone, was found at the scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and died later that same day. The Canyon County Sheriff’s Office investigated the incident as a murder-suicide and said Stone shot Zabel before turning the gun on himself; no other suspects were being sought.

The Ada County Coroner ruled Zabel’s death a homicide. Court and police records describe a tumultuous, long-term abusive relationship between Zabel and Stone. Stone had prior domestic battery charges, including a 2014 case involving Zabel that was later reduced, and a 2007 misdemeanor battery conviction involving a former wife. Family members said Stone isolated Zabel, damaged her cochlear implant, and that Zabel had recently begun talking to siblings about leaving him; her mother reported Stone purchased a single red rose and a coffee before going to the house.

If anyone knew Jaclyn or has information about her final days, please share what you know.