On the evening of November 29, 2006, 27-year-old daycare worker Avis Banks returned to her Ridgeland, Mississippi, home five months pregnant and expecting a quiet night. Shortly after pulling into her garage she was found later that evening by her fiancé, Keyon Pittman, lying in a pool of blood. Banks had been shot multiple times and stabbed in what is described as a brutal, personal attack; her unborn son also died.

Initial suspicion touched Pittman after he admitted an affair with fellow teacher Carla Hughes, but Pittman had an alibi for the time of the killing. Cell phone records later placed Hughes near Banks’ home around the time of the murder, and her cousin told police he had loaned her his .38 caliber revolver and a hunting knife shortly before the slaying. Hughes was arrested, charged with capital murder for Banks and the unborn child, and tried in October 2009. The prosecution presented the murder weapon matched to the bullets, testimony about shoes Hughes allegedly wore to kick in the back door, and Pittman’s account of the affair and obsessive behavior.

After eight hours of deliberation the jury convicted Carla Hughes on both counts and sentenced her to two consecutive life terms without parole; she continues to maintain her innocence. Does anyone have information about Banks’ last hours or about Hughes’ whereabouts on November 29, 2006?