James Albert Rhodes, 30, was found with severe injuries near the roadway in the 4400 block of East Four Ridge Road in the Imperial area of Jefferson County, Missouri, after deputies responded at about 7:25 a.m. on Friday, October 29, 2021. He was taken to a hospital and did not survive. Authorities treated the case as a homicide and asked the public for any sightings or information about Rhodes’s movements late Thursday night into early Friday morning, saying even small details could help reconstruct his last known whereabouts.

Family members include his parents, a daughter, and a sister; an obituary gives his birthplace as August 8, 1991, and ties him to Cadet while local reports call him an Imperial resident. In mid-December an arrest was publicly confirmed when 24-year-old Jacob Stevenson was taken into custody in connection with Rhodes’s killing and held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond.

Did anyone in the area see Rhodes or his vehicle the night before he was found?