In early January 2014 the small community of Burwell, Nebraska, was shaken when two-year-old Aimee Melling was found dead in her home on January 7. Investigators established that the fatal injuries were the result of shotgun wounds and concluded the death occurred inside the family residence between the evening of Saturday, January 4 and the morning of Tuesday, January 7.

Authorities determined Aimee’s father, 31-year-old Christopher Melling, was the only person responsible for her death and that he then died from a shotgun wound in an apparent murder-suicide. Neighbors had alerted police after noticing no activity at the house; autopsy results later confirmed the cause of death for both child and father.

Aimee would have turned three on January 12. Does anyone in Burwell have information about the family or the days leading up to those deaths?