Reginald A. Locke, 73, lived near 24th Street and Roosevelt Street in Phoenix. He was reported missing by his girlfriend on June 6, 2016, and the following day she returned to his home and found his body restrained in a closet with clear signs of trauma. Responding officers documented that he had been bound and opened a homicide investigation focused on the residence and surrounding neighborhood.

Detectives learned Locke was a registered sex offender with a prior Arizona conviction for attempted child molestation, a detail that shaped public reaction but did not change that investigators were treating the death as a violent, targeted crime. Early leads pointed to a woman known by the nickname Sugar, alleged to have distracted Locke with an offer of sex while an accomplice robbed and assaulted him. In September 2017 a woman named Jerri Joellen Kindelay (also known as Sugar) came to police and was later linked to the scene by DNA from Locke’s fingernail clippings; she reportedly admitted helping gain entry and said a male accomplice carried out the fatal beating.

Kindelay was arrested in Mesa and booked on a charge of first-degree murder in March 2018; police continue to describe an unidentified second participant. Did anyone in the neighborhood know a woman called Sugar or see a truck leave the area around June 6, 2016?