On February 10, 2020, police and medics in Waterloo, Iowa, responded around 11:20 p.m. to a home where 42-year-old Tamica Takeisha Allison and a visiting friend, 41-year-old Andrea Rochelle Anderson, were found shot to death. Both victims were inside the residence; Allison’s teenage daughter, who was upstairs at the time, testified at trial that she heard her mother’s last words and then two gunshots before finding the bodies and seeing Mathew Dee Buford III holding a gun.

Authorities identified 36-year-old Mathew Dee Buford III, Allison’s boyfriend and a resident of the home, as a person of interest. He left the state after the killings, and warrants were issued charging him with two counts of first-degree murder. Testimony at trial described Buford taking Allison’s daughter and her younger brother from the house and leaving them at other locations before fleeing. Buford surrendered in Peoria, Illinois.

A jury later convicted Mathew Dee Buford III of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of flight to avoid prosecution; he received two consecutive life sentences. If anyone knew Tamica Allison or has information about that night, please share what can help provide answers.