On the morning of November 12, 2009, a fire brought firefighters to a mobile home on a property in Pearcy, Arkansas. Inside the charred house were the bodies of 52-year-old Pamela Fern Fryar Gentry, her husband Edward Gentry Jr., and their son Jeremy, along with Jeremy’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Kristyn Warneke. A fifth victim, 80-year-old Edward Gentry Sr., was found in a separate building on the same property. Autopsies showed all five had been shot to death before the fire was set; Pamela sustained at least three gunshot wounds, including one to her head.

Investigators found signs of a robbery at the scene and reported that flat-screen televisions, firearms, and two sets of rims and tires were missing from the property. Within days police identified three suspects: Samuel Conway, Jeremy Pickney, and Marvin Stringer. Conway was linked to stolen items after a former girlfriend alerted authorities, and an informant bought stolen goods and saw Conway with two handguns later determined to be the murder weapons. On November 19, 2009, officers located the suspects at a motel in Hot Springs; Conway and Pickney were arrested and Stringer was killed in a shootout with police, during which a Garland County Sheriff’s Deputy was wounded.

If anyone knew the Gentry family or saw suspicious activity around their property in November 2009, please come forward with information.