Kelsey Sue Stahl, 24, was shot and killed in her Clinton, Iowa, apartment on the evening of December 21, 2010. A 2005 graduate of Clinton High School and a Certified Nursing Assistant at Eagle Point Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, friends and family reported a change in her behavior and in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend, Jason Dwaine Tate, in the months before her death.

Kelsey died from a single .38 caliber revolver shot to the neck. Tate later told authorities he had found the gun in a dumpster and, believing it unloaded, pulled the trigger to demonstrate it was safe. After the shooting, he did not render aid; instead he attempted to dispose of the gun, changed his bloodied pants, locked the apartment, and fled in Kelsey’s car. He went to an ex-girlfriend’s house in Illinois and reportedly said he was on the run for murder before being apprehended.

Tate was charged with first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. At trial he asserted the shooting was accidental, but a jury convicted him of first-degree murder, concluding the killing was willful, deliberate, and premeditated. He is serving a life sentence. Did anyone in Clinton or the surrounding area know Kelsey or notice changes in her relationship with Tate in 2010?