Pamela Jean Barnes was 41 when she and her boyfriend, 39-year-old Kenneth Kanehl Jr., were found shot to death in their Waterford Township home on Brunswick Boulevard on July 6, 2005. The couple had been moved into the house about a month earlier and were discovered during a welfare check after Pamela failed to report to work following the July 4 holiday. Both had been shot multiple times while sleeping; there were no signs of forced entry and no apparent theft, prompting investigators to treat the killings as targeted.

Police focused on Pamela’s ex-boyfriend, the father of her daughter, after learning she was preparing court action over unpaid child support and that he disapproved of the daughter living with Pamela and Kenneth. He was questioned and reportedly refused polygraph testing twice; investigators also cited his alleged remark at the funeral and noted similarities to a 1996 Milford bed-shooting in which he was considered a possible suspect. No arrests were made, the case went cold, and the primary person of interest has since died. Does anyone have information about Pamela, Kenneth, or that summer of 2005 that could help reopen leads?