Sheila Lomes was 22 and pregnant when she was murdered in a west Phoenix apartment complex in March 2012. Neighbors reported hearing terrified screams and someone banging on doors; Lomes was later found in a stairwell, stabbed 38 times. Her 2-year-old son was found crying beside her, with small bloody footprints on the walkway.

The investigation focused on Gilbert Villareal, identified as Lomes’ 36-year-old estranged husband. Lomes had obtained an emergency protection order against Villareal months before her death and had been trying to leave the relationship. Villareal fled to Mexico after the killing and eluded capture for years until being arrested there in December 2016 for an attempted homicide; that arrest eventually led to his return to the United States.

Does anyone have information about Sheila, her time at the west Phoenix complex, or the people who might have seen or helped her in early 2012?