Maria Pew Weimelt was 28 when she was killed in her Maple Grove, Minnesota home in April 2020. Her husband, Joshua Fury, reported her missing on April 30, saying she had gone for a walk and not returned. A helicopter search and other early efforts failed to find her, while family and friends told investigators the marriage had been troubled and that Maria had been planning to leave Fury.

Police executing a search warrant at the couple’s house used a K-9 trained to detect human remains and were led to a lower-level crawl space, where Maria’s body was found buried in a shallow grave. An autopsy determined she died of asphyxiation from a plastic bag that had been duct-taped over her head and nose.

Joshua Fury confessed that he killed Maria on April 20 after an argument, admitting to strangling her, placing the bag over her head, and burying her in the crawl space. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and later pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder in July 2020; sentencing was pending. Did anyone in Maple Grove or the surrounding area have information about the couple’s relationship or Maria’s last days?