Amelia Claypool was 19 and from Henderson, Nevada. She was shot and killed on June 27, 2019, in an incident investigators say was carried out by someone she was intimately involved with. The suspect in her murder was her boyfriend, identified as Hadley, who was arrested after the Henderson police determined a firearm was used.

Hadley appeared in court on charges related to Amelia’s murder and in 2019 accepted a plea deal, avoiding a full trial and a potential murder conviction. Amelia’s parents, Lee Ann Pretto and Blain Claypool, later filed a civil suit calling her death an avoidable tragedy.

The plea resolved the criminal proceedings but left Amelia’s family with unanswered questions and grief.