On March 21, 2018, nine-year-old Aiden Michael Kramer was found shot to death alongside his mother, Kelli Kramer, in their Burlington, Kentucky, apartment. The victims had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to their heads and torsos; Kelli’s then-current boyfriend discovered them and called authorities. Aiden was a fourth-grade, straight-A student at Burlington Elementary School.

Investigators focused on Kelli Kramer’s ex-boyfriend, Joshua Ward, after reports that the relationship had ended abruptly in May 2017 and that Ward began harassing Kelli by social media and by contacting her family and employer. A tip to CrimeStoppers led to a farm where Ward practiced shooting; ATF agents matched .22 caliber shell casings recovered there to casings found at the murder scene. Ward, an Ohio resident, was arrested in May 2018 and later convicted by a jury of two counts of murder. The jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Did anyone who knew Aiden or the family notice changes in Kelli’s life after the breakup that might shed light on the weeks before the killings?