On the morning of December 9, 2023, Kayla Vallee, a 40-year-old mother of five from Bonney Lake, Washington, was found dead inside an apartment in University Place after she went there to pick up her 10-year-old son and discuss custody. Vallee reportedly entered the apartment despite family warnings that she should not go alone; she had not been allowed inside before. Deputies later located her vehicle in the building’s parking lot and discovered Vallee’s body wrapped in a blanket and hidden between furniture, with multiple gunshot wounds. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

After Vallee was reported missing, officers traced a vehicle registered to 42-year-old Duane Dushon Moore to a trail near Buckley, where a 911 caller had reported a suspicious car. Deputies encountered Moore inside the vehicle; an hour-long standoff ended when they used a stun gun to subdue him after he exited the car and appeared to charge at them. Moore was arrested. Investigators recovered a .45-caliber handgun inside a shoe and child-support paperwork at the scene. A not guilty plea was entered on Moore’s behalf and bail was set at $1 million.

Does anyone in the area have information about Vallee, her visits to Moore’s apartment, or the events leading up to December 9?