On September 8, 2015, two men, 24-year-old Edgar Cisneros-Costumbre and 58-year-old Jose Luis Leyva Rodriguez, were found shot to death in a vehicle in an orchard near Manson, Washington. Investigators identified 56-year-old Benito Caro Sedano, the husband of Maria G. Sedano, as the suspected gunman; Cisneros-Costumbre had been identified as a potential witness in a 2014 kidnapping and murder case in which Benito was the primary suspect.

When law enforcement moved to arrest Benito, he fired multiple rounds at a Chelan County Sheriff’s deputy, striking the patrol car but not injuring the officer. A search warrant at the Sedano residence on Ivan Morse Road located the bodies of Benito and his 50-year-old wife, Maria G. Sedano. Authorities concluded Benito fatally shot Maria before his own death.

The couple’s 29-year-old son, Benny G. Sedano, was arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant and questioned about the shootings but was not charged in connection with the deaths. Did anyone in the Manson area know Maria or the Sedano family and have information that could shed light on the events leading up to September 8, 2015?