In spring 2016 a neighbor dispute in rural Arlington, Washington, ended in the deaths of 46-year-old Monique Patenaude and her husband Patrick Shunn. The couple was reported missing on April 11, 2016, after they failed to show up for a planned concert; their pets and livestock were found unattended, which alarmed friends and neighbors and prompted a search that became a homicide investigation.

Investigators found the couple’s vehicles abandoned in a remote, wooded area and discovered blood inside the vehicles. Attention turned to former neighbors, brothers John and Tony Reed, after surveillance footage linked them to disposal of the vehicles and there were reports of prior animosity and property disputes with John Reed. Tony Reed later surrendered at the U.S.–Mexico border and led investigators to a remote site north of the victims’ home where the remains of Monique Patenaude and Patrick Shunn were located. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner determined Patenaude died from multiple gunshot wounds and Shunn from a single gunshot wound to the head.

Does anyone have information about Monique’s life in Arlington or about tensions between the neighbors that could help explain how this dispute escalated?