On August 8, 2020, 32-year-old Mary Schaffer drove from Oregon to Spokane to pick up her two children from their father’s apartment in the Browne’s Addition neighborhood. At about 12:30 p.m. she texted her daughter that she was outside the apartment; that was her last communication. Hours later a passerby found Schaffer slumped over in the driver’s seat of her rental car, parked across the street from the apartment. She had been shot once in the head; her purse remained on her shoulder and a 9mm shell casing lay beside the vehicle.

Attention quickly centered on her 35-year-old ex-husband, Nathan Beal. Family members told police Beal had made threats against Schaffer since their 2017 separation. A neighbor reported hearing a gunshot around 12:30 p.m. and saw a man matching Beal’s description running from the scene. Police recovered a 9mm handgun from Beal’s apartment and a shirt from a nearby dumpster that matched the witness description; ballistics testing linked the casing to the recovered firearm. Beal was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, and a jury later found him guilty.

Did anyone in Browne’s Addition see Mary’s car or the person running from the scene that day who hasn’t yet spoken to investigators?