Investigators say Danielle Smith was stabbed to death before being burned.As for her mother, the medical examiner can't tell, she was burned too badly.
Smith's sister says she had plans to leave Missouri to get away from Steven Endsley but never got the chance.
Now, she just wants justice for her sister and her sister's mother. "Why does he get to have a life if she couldn't?" Says Heather Smith.
Steven Endsley is charged with first degree murder for killing 27 year-old Danielle Smith and her 61 year-old mother, Theresa Jackson.
"I want to confront him on the day that he is sentenced and ask him how can he kill my sister? I want to see him get the death penalty, honestly. I don't care if it's 20, 30 years down the road, I will sit there and I will watch him die," she says.