Sylvia Ann Ussery-Pearson, 49, disappeared from her Overland Park, Kansas, home on Monday, August 12, 2019. Her absence was described as highly out of character, and she was reported missing after she left home and did not return.

The next day her estranged husband, 51-year-old Charles Pearson, walked into a hotel near the Legends Outlets in Kansas City, Kansas, and told employees he had killed his wife. He was heavily armed with an AR-15 style rifle and engaged in a shootout with officers; he was fatally shot. Investigators searching Pearson’s Lenexa home found a handwritten note with a diagram that led them to the Lost Bridge area of Garfield in Benton County, Arkansas, where Ussery-Pearson’s body was located on the evening of Tuesday, August 13, 2019.

Police named Charles Pearson as the sole suspect and described the death as a homicide. Court records show the couple had been estranged and that Pearson had previously faced a misdemeanor charge for criminal damage to property in a domestic incident involving Ussery-Pearson; a diversion agreement in that case had included a prohibition on possessing firearms. Friends characterized the marriage as toxic and said Ussery-Pearson had experienced physical abuse.

Did anyone in the area know Sylvia’s routines, contacts, or any details that could help fill gaps in the timeline leading up to her disappearance?