SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Missouri State Patrol investigators are in South Dakota this week looking into the Melissa Peskey murder.
The Missouri State Patrol also has investigators in two unnamed states looking into the crime.
Peskey, 40, from Hartford, was killed between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri on Interstate 70 on December 13, 2018.
She was shot in front of her children riding in her car. An autopsy concluded that she had been shot by someone outside of her vehicle.
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The Missouri State Patrol provided the following statement to KELO.com News:
- Unfortunately, as we tell all media outlets, when it is an ongoing investigation, we are not permitted to discuss facts of the case. I will tell you that we are still diligently working the case with multiple other agencies. We, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, actually have officers in your state and two other states, this week, working on the investigation.
(Liz Ryan, KELO.com News, contributed to this report.)
