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On September 30, 2015, 28-year-old Candice Roper was found shot to death in her King Street home in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She was eight months pregnant; investigators counted the death of her unborn child as a separate murder. A second adult victim, 69-year-old Alton Bruce, was also found fatally shot inside the residence.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation joined local law enforcement on the scene. In the days after the discovery, authorities arrested Duane Lake and charged him with three counts of capital murder for the deaths of Roper, her unborn baby, and Bruce; he was also charged with theft of one of the victims’ cars and was denied bond.
Who in Clarksdale might have known Candice’s movements or seen anything unusual around that King Street home in late September 2015?