In mid-April 2017 a welfare check at a Coal Creek Canyon home in the foothills above Golden, Colorado, turned into a homicide investigation. Deputies entered the wooded residence on April 15 after acquaintances reported being unable to reach the occupants for several days and found three people dead: 56-year-old Kelly Sloat-White, her 54-year-old husband Wallace Lance White, and Wallace White’s 39-year-old brother Emory Leroy Fraker. All three had suffered trauma; investigators ruled out murder-suicide and later determined the cause of death for each was gunshot wounds.

The inquiry unfolded over the following month as detectives worked to establish what happened and whether the killings were targeted. Evidence developed during the investigation led to the arrest of Garrett Matthew Coughlin and he was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. A connection between Coughlin and the victims was reported, though motive was not immediately clear.

If anyone knew Kelly Sloat-White, the White family, or saw anything in Coal Creek Canyon around April 15, 2017, please come forward with information.