73 year old Lawrence Brostedt was found dead inside his garage when officers went out to conduct a well being check.

Holly Lucas faces multiple charges including first degree murder. She's in the Ozark County jail without bond.

Also behind bars is Michael Smith, he's looking at a charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. He's got a 250 thousand cash only bond.

Tyler Teynard is on the run, charged with first degree murder.

It all started when the Mountain Grove police department arrested a man for unrelated reasons and happened to find some of Lawrence Brostedt's checks in his possession.

"We did a well being check at his house and it was obvious when we got here that the house had been ransacked." said Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed.

During that search deputies went into a detached garage where Brostedt liked to work.

"We opened the door and there was a big tarp laying on the floor. I picked on corner of it up and you could see blood." said Reed.

Deputies were able to view surveillance footage at the banks where Brostedts checks were used.

"We got to checking out bank photographs and late last night we found out where some of the suspects live." said Reed. "We started hitting houses in Mansfield Missouri last night and we started coming up with property that was stolen out of the house."

Reed says the victim was ambushed and shot in the back of the head.

"'I think one of our suspects used to work for him, working on the property some time back." said Reed. "They had been planning this for quite some time, because they would come up here and stake out the property on a couple different times that I know of."

The whole investigation was started after an arrest was made in Mountain Grove.

"It was just a coincidence that Mountain Grove was able to stop that person and find those checks and put the pieces of the puzzle together." said Reed.

Sheriff Reed says working cases like this one is hard and not something that happens in Ozark County very often.

"We are in a very rural part of the county. The neighbors around here are excellent people. You don't expect things like this to happen out here." said Reed.

Two other suspects have pending charges.