Joy A. Coby was a 45-year-old educator in Moorefield, West Virginia, who was killed on September 16, 2015. Coby taught reading and coached track at Moorefield Middle School; her failure to arrive for work and not arranging a substitute prompted the school’s principal to contact local police, beginning a search that developed into a homicide investigation. Investigators were unable to locate her boyfriend, Jared D.

Connors, until authorities traced his cellphone to Staunton, Virginia, where he was found in a Walmart parking lot with Coby’s vehicle. As officers attempted contact, Connors shot himself; he survived the initial injury and was taken to the University of Virginia Medical Center in critical condition. Police later found Coby’s body in a wooded area near her home; she had suffered fatal gunshot wounds.

Anyone with information about Joy or the events of September 16, 2015 is asked to come forward.