Ermalinda Palomo, 50, is identified in the investigation as a central planner in the September 17, 2023, execution-style killings of Alberto Rolon, Zoraida Bartolomei, and their sons Adriel and Diego in Romeoville, Illinois. The family and their three dogs were found shot to death. Authorities say Palomo manipulated Nathaniel Huey Jr., Bartolomei’s coworker and paramour, by inventing fake phone numbers and online personas and convincing him the family was targeted by a Mexican drug cartel, which led him to carry out the shootings.

After the murders, police tracked Palomo and Huey Jr. to Oklahoma. On September 18 they were located by Catoosa police, a brief chase followed, and their vehicle crashed into an expressway divider and caught fire. During that incident Huey Jr. shot Palomo; she was pulled from the burning vehicle alive but died later that day at the hospital from her gunshot wounds. Palomo’s family had initially reported her missing before investigators linked her to the plot and the killings.

Does anyone have information about Palomo’s movements or communications in the weeks before September 17, 2023?