In the early morning hours of May 26, 2012, 23-year-old Lisa Marie Caldwell Techel was found shot and unresponsive in her bed at the couple’s trailer home in Agency, Iowa. Paramedics were unable to save her; she was 17 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child, a daughter they had named Zoey Maria. Seth Techel, 21, told 911 dispatchers he had been in the shower when he heard a gunshot and then discovered his wife.

Investigators noted no signs of forced entry or a struggle. A 12-gauge shotgun later identified as the murder weapon was found hidden in tall grass on the Techel property the day after the killing. Attention initially focused on a neighbor mentioned by the family, but detectives shifted their investigation to Seth after uncovering numerous text messages showing he was having an affair and had told the woman a day before the killing that he intended to leave Lisa. Seth was arrested on May 30, 2012, and charged with first-degree murder and non-consensual termination of a human pregnancy. After two hung juries in 2013, a third jury found him guilty in July 2014 and he was sentenced on September 10, 2014, to life without parole.

Does anyone have information about Lisa’s life in Agency or about the days leading up to May 26, 2012?