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Meagan Elizabeth Smith was 21 and a senior at Western Washington University when she was killed while house-sitting in Renton, Washington. In early July 2015 she agreed to watch a friend’s home; on the night of July 7 the family returned just before midnight and found the back door unlocked and Meagan lying dead in the kitchen from a single gunshot to the head. A piggy bank was left on the kitchen counter near her body.

Investigators tied the killing to Zachary Damien Craven, who earlier that day had gone to his grandmother’s Skyway home and shot her in the head. Craven, who had a history of threats and assaults against family and an active no-contact order from his grandmother, drove to the Renton house and demanded $1,000 from Meagan’s ex-girlfriend. Meagan retrieved a shared piggy bank for him; Craven then shot Meagan and the family’s elderly dog. He was arrested on July 8 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Did anyone in the community know Meagan, the Renton house’s occupants, or have information about Craven’s movements that day?