The Bizarre Murder of Brittany Stykes
The pregnant woman and her young daughter were shot while driving to visit family in 2013 and the crime remains unsolved.
Brittany Stykes had an online job interview on Wednesday, August 28, 2013. She made plans to use the computer at her mother-in-law’s home to complete the interview; that afternoon, she and her 14-month-old daughter, Aubree, left their Ripley, Ohio, home and made the 30-mile drive to her mother-in-law’s home in Bethel, Ohio.
Brittany had quit her previous job at Wal-Mart a few months earlier when she learned she was pregnant with her second child. The 22-year-old had recently applied for a seasonal job with the Internal Revenue Service and had been pleased when they contacted her for an interview. After the online interview was finished, she was hopeful that everything had gone well. Brittany ate dinner with her mother-in-law, then told her that she was going to stop by her parents’ house on her way home.
It was around 7:00 pm when Brittany left her mother-in-law’s home, carrying a platter of leftover chicken, mashed potatoes, and macaroni and cheese for her husband, Shawn. She strapped Aubree into her car seat and climbed into her yellow Jeep Wrangler, then started driving towards her parents’ home in Ripley. It was her father’s…