On the afternoon of February 18, 2023, police in St. Louis County answered a call to a home in the 7800 block of Utica Drive in the Hanley Hills neighborhood and found 43-year-old resident John Harold Stevens dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the head. He was pronounced at the scene. The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was activated because of the severity of the crime.

Detectives established that earlier that evening Stevens and his roommate had picked up an acquaintance, identified in reports as Terry Wayne Winebarger II, and brought him to the Utica Drive residence. Investigators say Winebarger shot Stevens while he was asleep, then took items from the home, including the firearm used in the killing, jewelry, and methamphetamine. Winebarger, a resident of Cuba, Missouri, was identified as the primary suspect, taken into custody and charged in St. Louis County with first-degree murder and armed criminal action; bond was set at one million dollars.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night aware of a vehicle or visitors at the Utica Drive home?