On February 20, 2014, 23-year-old Solanlly Paulino was found dead in her Peabody, Massachusetts, apartment at the Eaves Avalon complex. Police located her face down on a couch with a single gunshot wound to the head, visible strangulation marks on her neck, and signs of a struggle including an overturned lamp and a hole in the wall. A spent shell casing was recovered from the floor next to the loveseat where her body was found.

The investigation focused on her 43-year-old boyfriend, Franklin Castano, who went to the Lynn Police Station the morning Paulino’s body was discovered and confessed to killing her. The relationship had a prior history of violence, including an assault charge in 2010 involving Paulino, and family members said she had been trying to end the relationship in the days before her death, even packing Castano’s belongings. Paulino was a student at Salem State University studying social work and early childhood education and worked as a nanny.

Does anyone have information about Paulino’s last days or about the relationship that could help explain what happened?