On November 12, 2009, firefighters responding to a fire at a mobile home in Pearcy, Arkansas, discovered a quadruple homicide. Inside the charred residence were the bodies of 56-year-old Edward Earl Gentry Jr, his 52-year-old wife Pam, their 24-year-old son Jeremy, and Jeremy’s 19-year-old girlfriend Kristyn Warneke. Investigators determined all four had been shot before the fire was set. Authorities later found 80-year-old Edward Gentry Sr bound and shot twice in the head in a nearby home on the same property.

Investigators developed leads pointing to three local men: 23-year-old Samuel Conway, 23-year-old Jeremy Pickney, and 22-year-old Marvin Stringer. A former girlfriend of Conway reported seeing him with items stolen from the Gentry home; a confidential informant said Conway tried to sell those goods and had two handguns later ballistically matched to the weapons used in the killings. The informant also purchased a .40-caliber pistol from Stringer that was confirmed to have belonged to Edward Gentry Sr.

Law enforcement located the three men at a Hot Springs motel on November 19, 2009. Conway and Pickney were taken into custody; Stringer opened fire on officers and was fatally wounded in a shootout that also injured a Garland County Sheriff’s deputy, who survived.

Did anyone in the Pearcy area know the Gentry family or observe unusual activity around their property in November 2009?