Eric Brian Rodriguez, 46, was last seen at a music festival in Pulaski County on March 20, 2021. Three days later, on March 23, 2021, an SUV on fire was reported along Walnut Road near the Walnut and Bass roads area outside Falcon in Laclede County. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, Rodriguez was found inside the vehicle.

An autopsy showed Rodriguez had been shot before the fire, and investigators treated the scene as a homicide rather than an accidental blaze. The Laclede and Pulaski County sheriff’s offices and the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control worked together to reconstruct the timeline and movements that took Rodriguez from the festival to the rural road where the torched SUV was found.

If anyone knew where Rodriguez went after the festival, who he may have been with, or saw vehicle movements near Walnut and Bass roads that weekend, please share what you know with investigators.