Ashley Boone Bush was 33 and pregnant with her fourth child when she was killed after meeting someone she believed was offering a work-from-home job and baby supplies. In the fall of 2022 she connected online with a woman using the name Lucy, who was actually Amber Waterman. On October 31, 2022, Amber picked Ashley up in Maysville, Arkansas, supposedly to take her to a job interview, but drove her across the state line to Pineville, Missouri. An autopsy showed Ashley died from penetrating trauma to the torso.

At the Waterman residence the newborn daughter, whom Ashley had planned to name Valkyrie Grace Willis, was cut from Ashley’s womb and did not survive. Paramedics were called after Amber’s husband, Jamie Waterman, reported she had just given birth, but the baby could not be revived. Jamie later led investigators to Ashley’s body, which had been wrapped, burned in a fire pit, and moved on the property; remains of Ashley and the infant were recovered in separate locations in McDonald County.

Amber and Jamie Waterman were arrested. Amber pleaded guilty to kidnapping resulting in death and causing the death of a child in utero; Jamie pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to kidnapping resulting in death. Does anyone have information about Ashley’s last movements before she met Lucy online?