It was a run-of-the-mill morning back in May 2021, when painters turned up to work on a house in Ridgecrest, Kern County, California.
It was the home of Daniel Gunnarsson’s stepfather, and the 20-year-old had stopped by earlier that day with his girlfriend, Katie Pham, 21.
The pair had been casually dating for around a month – but cracks were already starting to show and on 17 May, they’d argued.
On the morning of 18 May, Daniel had gone to his stepfather’s home in the 900 block of Skylark
