On January 30, 2019, 49-year-old Gabriel Ricardo Quispe, a Hispanic resident of Fort Smith, was found dead at Dripping Springs Cemetery near Uniontown, Arkansas. A visitor to the cemetery discovered his body and authorities determined Quispe had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Investigators traced the case quickly to 24-year-old Jessica Ann Howard of Van Buren. Howard and Quispe shared a young child, and Quispe had recently been granted partial custody. Authorities say Howard lured Quispe to the cemetery under the pretense of a meeting with intent to rob him, and she was arrested later that day in Fort Smith in possession of Quispe’s vehicle. After her arrest Howard confessed to shooting Quispe with a semi-automatic handgun.

Howard was charged with first-degree murder, a felony with a firearm, and theft of property, and was held on a $500,000 bond. Did anyone in the area know of tensions between them or see either person near Dripping Springs Cemetery around that date?