On the morning of May 13, 2020, 63-year-old Pamela Susan Morse was found dead in her Martinsville, Virginia, home by her husband, David Lee Morse after he returned from a night shift. The medical examiner determined she died of two gunshot wounds to the head. Investigators say the killing followed an attempted heroin overdose and a period during which the home’s security cameras had been unplugged.

Authorities allege David Morse, a retired Henry County sheriff’s investigator, conspired with his then-mistress Tanna Shelton Fitzgerald and two others, Casey Lynn Rogers and Collin Joshua Russell, to kill Pamela. Prosecutors say Fitzgerald, Rogers and Russell entered the home while David Morse was at work, shot Pamela, then stole a 2010 Jeep Compass, firearms and other items; the Jeep was later found abandoned and partially spray-painted in Franklin County with stolen property inside.

All four were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Tanna Shelton Fitzgerald died in the Henry County Jail before trial; authorities ruled her death a suicide. David Lee Morse, Collin Joshua Russell and Casey Lynn Rogers faced prosecution on murder and related charges. Did anyone in the Martinsville or Franklin County area notice the stolen Jeep or the people involved around May 2020?