Joseph Soule was 34 when he and 31-year-old Jaclyn Lepird of Battle Creek, Michigan, were reported missing after last being seen on October 7, 2020. A missing persons report was filed the following Monday, and the investigation soon focused on their landlord, 53-year-old Chad Reed, with whom they had an ongoing dispute while living on Post Avenue.

On October 15, 2020, Reed turned himself in to the Battle Creek Police and confessed to killing both Soule and Lepird. He led investigators to the bodies and said he had wrapped the victims in plastic and left them in his pickup truck for several days before moving the vehicle to an abandoned garage at another property. Reed was arrested and held in the Calhoun County Jail, charged with two counts of open murder. A fire later occurred at the Post Avenue home where the killings took place.

What details about the couple’s last day or the dispute with their landlord might help explain what happened to Joseph Soule and Jaclyn Lepird?