On the afternoon of June 4, 2014, deputies in Cass County, Missouri, found 25-year-old Forrest Fuller dead near a vehicle at Wills Cemetery in rural Peculiar. Investigators determined he had suffered multiple gunshot wounds; the remote scene prompted assistance from the Kansas City Metro Squad.

A 16-year-old tipster identified two 18-year-old men, Tyler Smallwood and Mathew Volland, and court documents say the meeting had been set up as a fistfight. Prosecutors allege Smallwood brought a rifle and Fuller was struck about six times before the suspects fled and buried the weapon on property in Kansas City. Volland later pleaded guilty to accessory to first-degree murder and armed criminal action and received a 30-year sentence in June 2016.

Smallwood went to trial on first-degree murder charges; his defense presented an alibi and pointed to lost potentially exculpatory evidence, including a 911 recording and video of an alibi witness. After eight days, a Cass County jury acquitted him of all charges. Does anyone have information about Fuller’s last movements or about witnesses who were at Wills Cemetery that day?