Graciela Laura Holker, 45, was found dead in her North Salt Lake apartment on West Center Street on October 26, 2019, with a gunshot wound. Police were initially called on a possible suicide, and a note that appeared to be a suicide note was recovered at the scene. Investigators soon questioned the self-inflicted theory after scene evidence, including the handgun’s position and spent casings, did not match a suicide account.

Attention turned to her 24-year-old son, Jeffrey Antonio Langford, after he broadcast parts of the scene on Facebook Live and gave inconsistent statements to detectives. He at various times said his mother shot herself and that he fired another shot to end her suffering. Langford was arrested and charged in connection with Holker’s death; prosecutors and family described a long history of drug and alcohol addiction affecting both mother and son.

In July 2020 Langford pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter, a second-degree felony, and received a sentence of up to 15 years in the Utah State Prison; he maintained in court that he did not kill his mother and said she shot herself first. Does anyone have information about Graciela’s life in North Salt Lake or about the months leading up to October 2019?