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In early March 1997 the bodies of 33-year-old Harmon Samuel Fenton and his girlfriend Sarah Palmer were found in the bed of a pickup truck in a shed near Melrose, Kansas, a few miles north of the Oklahoma border. Both had been shot to death. The couple lived in Commerce, Oklahoma, in Ottawa County and had been reported missing for more than a week before their remains were located.

Investigators believed Fenton and Palmer were killed in Commerce and their bodies transported into Kansas, but a definitive crime scene in Commerce was never identified. In 2002 two men, Jimmy Neal Rather and Brandon Jones, were charged in Ottawa County with first-degree murder, then a man already in custody for other killings, Jeremy Jones, confessed to their murders; inconsistencies in that confession and a lack of corroboration prevented charges. The charges against Rather and Brandon Jones were later dropped and the double homicide remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Commerce or the surrounding area know Harmon or Sarah and have information that might still help explain what happened?