Mitchell Wayne Kemp was 39 when he disappeared from Columbia, Missouri, in the late summer of 2004. Family members reported him missing after they could not reach him, and the case went cold for several years until a tip from a Florida man who had been contacted by one of Kemp’s relatives online reopened the investigation.

In August 2008 skeletal remains were found on a property off Deer Park Road near the Three Creeks Conservation Area south of Columbia. DNA testing confirmed the remains were Kemp’s, and an autopsy by the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office determined he had been shot to death. The property had formerly been owned by Gregory Warren Morton; at the time of Kemp’s disappearance Morton was living with Kemp’s estranged wife, Tausha L. Fields.

Authorities arrested Morton and later charged Fields in connection with Kemp’s death. Investigators say Fields lured Kemp to the Deer Park Road property, where Morton shot him multiple times; Morton later said Fields had manipulated him into committing the killing. A jury later found Tausha Fields guilty of first-degree murder and Morton pleaded guilty to a reduced second-degree murder charge, receiving a 19-year sentence.

Did anyone who knew Kemp or who lived near Deer Park Road in 2004 see or hear anything unusual that summer?