Shawnda Slote-Reed

A mother is found brutally murdered in her home
Shawnda Slote Reed, a 28-year-old White woman from Fulton, Missouri, was found dead inside her home on June 7, 2005, shot while in her bedroom. The morning that should have felt ordinary turned into a nightmare when her young children discovered her in bed, and the small neighborhood on Tanglewood Way became a sealed-off crime scene as investigators tried to understand how someone could walk into a family’s home and leave her there.

From the start, detectives were struck by what they d ...