After losing her husband, 72-year-old Nancy Hartz met a man online who called himself Ray and, over about a year of daily messages, convinced her to sell her home and belongings to travel the country with him in an RV. In June 2015 she left with him and spoke to her daughter once a few days later; after that call the family never heard from her directly. Emails that followed seemed unfamiliar, prompting the family to hire a private investigator. That probe revealed the man was using a stolen identity and was later identified as Robert Lawson Carnochan, who used at least 18 aliases.

Carnochan was found in April 2016 in Yucca, Arizona, living with another woman who had also sold her belongings to be with him; he was arrested on identity, forgery, and weapons charges and later imprisoned. In May 2019 skeletal remains found near Topock, Arizona, were forensically identified in December 2020 as Nancy Hartz. The autopsy determined she died from gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide. Carnochan was the primary suspect but had died in prison in September 2020 and was never charged.

Does anyone who knew Nancy or saw her RV travels in June 2015 have information to share?