Kelly A. Pease, 37, was found dead in her car at Kootenai Health’s parking lot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on March 8, 2017. A nursing student and mother of five, she suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head; a hospital employee attempted CPR but she did not survive. Denson, on charges of attempted strangulation and domestic battery after an assault in which he reportedly choked, punched, and stabbed her.

Pease obtained a no-contact order, which Denson allegedly violated in February and again later, prompting police to seek his arrest on the day she was killed. The following day deputies located Denson’s white Nissan Pathfinder on a rural road; a muffled gunshot was heard from inside the vehicle and officers found Denson deceased of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators named Denson as the sole suspect in Pease’s murder. Her children remembered her as the absolute glue of the family and said she dreamed of buying a farm.

If anyone knew Kelly’s movements that day or saw Denson’s vehicle near Kootenai Health on March 8, 2017, please come forward.