Heather L. Bradford was 36 when she was found dead outside her home on Sunny Ann Lane in Mountain Home, Arkansas, early on a Friday morning. Her parents had gone to the house after Heather called to say she’d been in a fight with her live-in boyfriend, Dusty Shane Wheeler, and that he had struck her in the face. Paramedics who arrived about 6:00 a.m. found Heather cold and without a cardiac rhythm; she had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head.

A handgun shell casing was recovered in the driveway. Heather’s mother removed a pistol from her daughter’s lap and secured it in the family vehicle; Heather’s father later turned that firearm over to police. Wheeler, 44, was found asleep on the living room couch, taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty, was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center, and after a bond reduction was released under conditions including house arrest and an ankle monitor.

If anyone knew Heather, her movements that night, or saw activity around Sunny Ann Lane in the early morning hours, please share what was seen.