On August 24, 2025, the quiet of a late-summer Sunday in Springfield, Missouri, broke when firefighters were called at 1:37 p.m. to a blaze at 3307 West Lombard Street. Inside the home they found three people with apparent gunshot wounds, including Jessica Parnell, 35, female. Police homicide detectives soon took over, and by evening the outlines of the tragedy were clear: what began as a structure fire call was, in fact, a double murder followed by a suicide.
Investigators determined th
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