On the evening of May 31, 2016, 24-year-old Natalia Casagrande was found dead in the basement of her Magna, Utah, home. An autopsy reclassified her death as a homicide, finding multiple injuries including a gunshot wound to the head. Natalia was at home with her two young daughters, ages one and five. Her husband returned after she stopped responding to texts and found the five-year-old crying with marks on her face and neck and Natalia’s body in a pool of blood downstairs.

Police identified 26-year-old Jason Alan Black of Kearns as the attacker. Black had gone to the Casagrande home that day to buy marijuana, shot Natalia after the transaction, and then attempted to suffocate the five-year-old with a throw pillow; the child survived and identified J. Black to her father. Black fled with marijuana, cash, and two handguns. An accomplice, 24-year-old Estephania Sanchez-Mendoza, served as the getaway driver, later admitting she drove Black to the home and then to a hotel where she rented a room for him and helped dispose of property taken from the residence.

A few days after the murder, authorities located Black at his parents’ home; a confrontation with the U.S.

Did anyone in the area know the victim or the accused and have details that could shed more light on the events that day?