Ashleigh Love.

MUS-2026-0120

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Around 2 a.m. on October 6, 2009, an armed intruder entered the Milwaukee home of 19-year-old Ashleigh Love and shot her in the face as she slept. Her mother Tammy saw a person with a bandanna over his face and a shotgun flee through the backyard. Investigators believe she was targeted. Milwaukee police said in 2016 they had investigated every lead but still had no suspects; in 2022 a family-backed investigative podcast launched. No one has been arrested.

1. 2009-10-05

   Ashleigh Love, 19, worked the closing shift at Arby's, then watched a Green Bay Packers game with her family, showered and went to bed.

2. 2009-10-06

   Around 1:55 a.m., an armed intruder entered the family's N. 64th Street home and shot Ashleigh in the face as she slept; her mother Tammy saw a person with a bandanna over his face and a shotgun flee through the backyard.

3. 2016

   Seven years after the murder, Milwaukee police said they investigated every lead they got but still had no suspects.

4. 2017-03-20

   Project: Cold Case published a case spotlight on Ashleigh Love's murder.

5. 2022

   Producer Kyle Olson launched the Love & Justice investigative podcast, noting that 13 years later no suspects had been arrested.

6. 2026

   Case coverage continues to describe the murder as unsolved with no arrests made.

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