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Amy Lou Buckingham, 38, a homemaker and mother of three from Tunnelton, West Virginia, was shot and killed outside her home on April 16, 2015. Family members inside the house — including her father, her son, and her sister — were present that night when John Wayne Boo Strawser Jr., a former boyfriend, arrived. Buckingham followed Strawser into the driveway, an argument ensued near his vehicle, and relatives heard a single gunshot. They found Buckingham mortally wounded; medical evidence showed a single close-range bullet pierced her breastbone and she died at the scene.

Investigators recovered a 9mm pistol and a fired .44 Magnum cartridge at Strawser’s residence and, with a neighbor’s help, later found a .44-caliber Rossi Ranch handgun hidden in a swampy area. Forensic testing linked the cartridge to that Rossi, and gunshot-residue testing indicated the Rossi, if it were the murder weapon, had been fired from less than about seven feet away.

Strawser denied killing Buckingham but was charged with first-degree murder and fleeing in a vehicle with reckless indifference. A Preston County jury convicted him of first-degree murder and the fleeing count at an August 2016 trial; he was later sentenced to life without parole for the murder, plus a consecutive term for fleeing. Who has information about Amy’s last moments or the people around her that night?