Cecil ’Sandy’ Morris, 57, of Greenville, South Carolina, was found dead in the basement of a Michael Drive home after firefighters responded to a blaze on October 30, 2015. The coroner determined the fire was set to conceal a killing: Morris had been shot and killed weeks before the house fire.

The case went cold for years. In fall 2020 detectives reexamined evidence, including phone records, and located video footage that investigators say implicated Morris’s former roommate, Jason Travis Merrill. Authorities allege Merrill fled to California after the killing, used Morris’s credit cards for thousands of dollars, then returned to Greenville and set the fire on October 30. Morris’s vehicle was later found in Brevard, North Carolina, where Merrill had gone to stay with relatives.

In November 2020 Merrill was arrested in North Carolina and charged with murder, arson, weapon possession and related fraud counts. The motive for the killing remains unclear. Does anyone have information about Morris, the Michael Drive home, or his movements in the weeks before the fire?