The incident unfolded on March 6, 2021, on an remoted climbing path inside Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley Nationwide Park.

In keeping with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace, Perkins, 35, traveled over 300 miles from Virginia to fulfill Dunmire, 31, on the nationwide park. The pair — who prosecutors say knew one another beforehand — launched into a hike, venturing off-trail right into a wooded space. It was there, prosecutors state, that Perkins drew a hid handgun and “fatally shot Dunmire… behind the pinnacle.” His physique was found by hikers three days later.

FBI investigators used a mixture of “GPS knowledge, DNA, social media, cellphone information, and ballistics evaluation on the crime scene” to hyperlink Perkins to the homicide, prosecutors confirmed.

The legal grievance sheds additional mild on the sufferer’s final recognized moments. Simply 4 days earlier than his demise, Dunmire reportedly advised a co-worker he was assembly a lady who was “staying within the space for the weekend.” He additionally reportedly texted his girlfriend saying he was donating plasma, earlier than heading house.

His co-worker later witnessed a lady with brown hair decide him up in a white Sensible automotive, which authorities traced again to Virginia and found was registered to Perkins’ husband. Witnesses additionally reported seeing a lady matching Perkins’ description on the park path on the day of the homicide, and hikers within the neighborhood recalled listening to a gunshot between “11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m.,” in line with courtroom paperwork.

The FBI’s investigation spanned practically 9 months earlier than Perkins’ arrest. A search of her Alexandria, Virginia, house uncovered “three 9mm pistols,” considered one of which contained bullets with “related traits” to these discovered inside Dunmire’s head.

Court docket paperwork reveal that Perkins and Dunmire had a shared previous, having attended highschool collectively from 2005 to 2009. In 2017, Perkins had filed a report with Virginia Seaside police, alleging Dunmire raped her, however “did not have sufficient proof to file costs towards him.”

Following her temporary service within the Coast Guard, the place she met her husband, Perkins left and reportedly turned an OnlyFans mannequin below the title Sabrina Savage, as reported by the Cleveland Plain Vendor.

Perkins’ responsible plea to second-degree homicide and utilizing a firearm throughout and in relation to a criminal offense of violence on federal property got here only one week earlier than her scheduled trial. She now faces a possible sentence of “between 20 and 25 years in jail,” per prosecutors, and is slated for sentencing on September 9, 2025.

The twisted saga did not finish with Dunmire’s homicide, nonetheless, as, in November 2021, Dunmire’s mom, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, traveled to Washington, D.C., with the intention of killing Perkins, per the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace.

In keeping with a press launch, after Dunmire’s homicide, his mother and father “turned annoyed with the investigation of their son’s demise, and Dunmire started to conduct her personal investigation. Dunmire’s psychological state considerably deteriorated over this time.”

Dressed as a UPS driver, Dunmire’s mom mistakenly shot one other girl twice within the stomach after knocking on an house door. The mother and father fled, altering their license plates in an try to evade seize, however have been finally tracked down. The lady she shot survived her accidents.

Tommie Lynn Dunmire died by suicide whereas being pulled over in Florida, allegedly utilizing the identical gun fired within the assault. McQuillen, Dunmire’s father, pleaded responsible to accent after the very fact to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to a few years in jail.