On the evening of February 4, 2019, 27-year-old Alice Marie Figueroa was shot and killed inside her apartment on Elam Street in New Britain, Connecticut. Police responded to reports of gunfire shortly before 6 p.m., found Figueroa gravely wounded and she was later pronounced dead at a local hospital; the cause of death was ruled a homicide by gunshot. Figueroa was the mother of three children.

Investigators quickly focused on her 42-year-old boyfriend, Benjamin Morales, the father of two of her children. Family members said Figueroa had recently moved to the apartment to distance herself from Morales, and a complaint she’d filed about an earlier altercation had produced an active arrest warrant for him. On the day she was killed, Morales allegedly confronted Figueroa’s niece outside before entering the apartment, shot Figueroa, threatened the niece and fled.

A nationwide manhunt followed with U.S. Marshals involved; several people were arrested on charges of hindering prosecution for assisting Morales. The search ended on March 12, 2019, when Morales was found hiding in a refrigerator in a South Carolina home and arrested. Were there signs in Alice’s life or neighborhood that might help explain how someone could evade capture for more than a month?