Sasha Marie Krause, 27, a Sunday school teacher from the Mennonite community in Farmington, New Mexico, disappeared from her Crouch Mesa home on the evening of January 18, 2020 after sharing a meal with housemates and heading to the Farmington Mennonite Church. Her body was found by a camper gathering firewood near Sunset Crater National Monument outside Flagstaff, Arizona on February 22, 2020. Identification by fingerprints and an autopsy showed she died of a gunshot wound and blunt force trauma; her wrists had been bound with duct tape.

Investigators from multiple agencies used cellphone and financial records and surveillance video to link 21-year-old Airman Mark Gooch to Krause’s disappearance and death. Cell data placed his phone near the church and in the area where her body was later found; his phone also pinged the same towers as Krause’s on the night she vanished.

Gooch was arrested on April 21, 2020 at Luke Air Force Base. At trial prosecutors relied on the circumstantial evidence outlined above; a jury found him guilty of kidnapping and first-degree murder on October 13, 2021, and he was sentenced to life without parole in January 2022. If anyone knew Sasha, her routines, or observed activity near the church or Crouch Mesa on January 18–19, 2020, please share what was seen or remembered.