A green pickup truck, driven by a man, believed to be Howard "Chip" Pullin III, possibly with a white male passenger, drives into the driveway of Wanda Pullin, his mother. Just three minutes later, the green pickup truck leaves the property. There's an empty flatbed trailer attached to the truck.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

Soon after Chip leaves, a white SUV with a sunroof, driven by a white female, is seen on surveillance footage arriving on the property. Based on the vehicle and description of the woman, this is believed to be Kim Pullin.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

Three minutes after the white SUV arrives, the car departs the property — likely with Wanda Pullin, Kim's mother-in-law, as a passenger.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

The green pickup truck returns on the property, his time with a white male passenger. Three minutes later, the truck leaves the property having detached the trailer.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

A white pickup truck arrives on the property. A white man, believed to be the gas well man, opens the gate next to the driveway and drives to the back of the property where the gas well is located. Seven minutes later, the man departs.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

Continuing the busy morning on this property, a US Postal Service truck enters the driveway, and departs within a minute of being there.

Chip, Kim, and Wanda go to the office of their family attorney to close a deal on one of Wanda's properties. Chip received a $15,000 check for the sale of the property.

Lori leaves her residence after leaving a note for her fiance, Mark Schoonover, stating that she was going for a walk, car wash, and then to her mother's house. She planned to help her mom conduct business regarding the gas well on her mother's property. While on her way over to her mother's house, Lori calls multiple times. None of the calls were answered.

Around noon, Lori's car, a white Nissan SUV pulls into the long driveway and parks by Wanda's house. Lori enters the house.

Lori is then seen on the security cameras leaving the residence, papers in hand, and departing the residence. Her car turns south on Shannon Road, heading in the direction of her brother's house, which is only three houses down.

Samantha, Lori's daughter recounts what it was like watching the surveillance footage from the property after her mother was found deceased. She told WKBN that they watched the footage 50 or 60 times over and over again, "before we found a small blip of the car." The route Lori's car takes is not down the driveway — it's through the grass behind the house. Interestingly, this route is outside of the surveillance camera's view.

By the late afternoon and evening, Lori stops answering phone calls. This begins at 1:47pm, where Lori misses a call. Everything from here on goes unanswered.

After not getting in touch with Lori all day, and the fact that she doesn't come home in the evening, Mark begins to worry. In the early morning hours of August 2, 2017, he calls the Brimfield Township Police Department to report Lori as missing.

Around 4:00am, Corrie calls Tim from her place in Pittsburgh asking if her mom, Lori, stayed over at Wanda's house. She said she could not get in touch with her, and Tim told his daughter that he didn't want to go over there at 4:30am since Wanda lives by herself, and he didn't want to scare her. He promised to go over later in the morning.

Corrie's son Kyle heads over to Wanda's house to quickly look to see if he can identify Lori's car. He did not see her car in the driveway, so he leaves.

In the early morning hours of August 2, 2017, Tim goes over to Wanda's property to search the family estate. He can see a small portion of Lori's car sticking out behind the barn, so he believes Lori must be in the house. Once he gets inside, he sees Wanda on the phone with Kim. Tim searches the house, but doesn't find Lori. He heads outside and ends up approaching Chip, who pulled into the driveway.

Chip and Tim walk back behind the property's barn together. They find Lori's car, which has her purse and paper inside. Chip says, "Hey, the tractor is missing," or something to that effect. Tim reasons that it's possible Lori was cutting grass. There was a fresh patch of what appeared to be cut grass, so they followed it throughout the property. Tim walked ahead of Chip.

Tim and Chip walk the route where the gras had been cut. As they passed a spot by the pond, Chip said something to the effect of, "There's the tractor." Once they turned the corner and saw Lori with her head and shoulders submerged in the water, Chip said something to the effect of "Don't touch anything," and "Leave her like that so the police can see." Tim did not know why Chip responded in that way and started saying emphatically, "There is your sister, that's your sister!" Tim says Chip's level of concern and his strange response bothered him.

Liberty Police Officers and paramedics from the Liberty Fire Department are dispatched to the farm for a female unresponsive lying in a pond. They find Lori deceased upon arrival and begin taking statements.

After Captain Meloro contacted the Trumbull County Coroners Office, Medstar was dispatched to the scene to retrieve Lori's body. Medstar then transported Lori to the Trumbull County Coroners Office for an autopsy.

Wanda Pullin Family Farm

After Tim calls his daughters to tell them that he discovered Lori deceased. Sam calls 911 and told the dispatch that her dad just found her mom dead, an that she "knew that Chip did it." Dispatch informerd her that they have paramedics and officers on the scene and that she should go there to tell them her thoughts. When Sam arrived one hour and 30 minutes later, the police were already gone.

No investigation was conducted by the Liberty Township Police Department. The police close the case the same day, ruling the incident as a farm accident.

Chip, Kim, and Wanda previously went to the office of their family attorney to close a deal on one of Wanda's properties. Chip received a $15,000 check for the sale of the property, which he deposited. According to other members of the family, they were unaware of this deal.

Forensic Engineering, PLLC, an accident investigation organization, is contacted and requested to travel to the Pullin Family Farm to perform an engineering investigation.

A Forensic Engineer arrives on the property to investigate and evaluate the circumstances surrounding Lori's death. Specifically, Forensic Engineering, PLLC was asked to examine the tractor for a possible malfunction and to provide an objective expert opinion on the matter.

In an interview with the Forensic Engineer reconstructing Lori's death, Chip confirms to the interviewer that he installed the security cameras on his mother's front porch and the DVR in the basement. Chip also says that Courtland Tractor made repairs to the tractor twice in 2017, and that it was working the last time he used it.

Forensic Engineering, PLLC (FE) finalizes their report or the family. They find that the 1978 Ford 2000 Tractor was "mechanically sound" and that there were no defects that prevented the tractor from stopping or being steered by the operator. The tractor was also found in "neutral" with the high speed of the PTO engaged, and the key switch in the "on" position. They note that these findings suggest the tractor was running normally. They also note that there are discrepancies between Chip and Tim's recounting of how Lori's body was discovered. Lastly, they note that there is a potential route that Lori's car could've taken to get onto the residence and back behind the barn without being seen on the surveillance cameras.

The coroner would later release a new report, saying that Lori died of homicide by asphyxiation. There were black and blue marks on the side of Lori's neck. Police now believe that Lori's death was staged to appear as an accident.

Soon after Lori's death is reclassified as a homicide and many start pointing the finger at him, he hires a prominent Cleveland criminal defense attorney and stops cooperating with investigators. He has refused to take a polygraph test.