On the night of Wednesday, April 1, 2015, a 42-year-old man, Edward ’Eddie’ Douglas, was found shot to death near the intersection of Highway JJ and Rouggly Road in the unincorporated community of Valles Mines, St. Francois County, Missouri. Investigators determined Douglas suffered two fatal gunshot wounds, one to the left side of his head and one to his upper left chest. A witness reported hearing two gunshots and then saw a dark-colored mid-size truck speed away from the scene.

A cell phone recovered beside Douglas contained a text exchange showing he and a local acquaintance, Daniel Ryburn Dunn, had just been in a confrontation. Detectives located and interviewed 63-year-old Dunn, who initially said he had dropped Douglas at a commuter lot earlier that evening and then returned home alone. Searches of Dunn’s property and vehicle, however, turned up blood spatter on the passenger side of his truck and on the shirt he had been wearing.

Dunn was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action and was being held in the St. Francois County Jail without bond as legal proceedings began. Does anyone have information about Douglas’s movements that evening or who might have seen that truck in the area?