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On the morning of June 10, 2001, masked intruders broke into a three-story townhome in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Anthony Neal was asleep in the master bedroom next to his fiancée, with their one-month-old son in a nearby bassinet and a 12-year-old daughter asleep on the first floor. The assailants demanded money and fatally shot Neal; they left with a large amount of cash taken from the residence.

Investigators collected physical evidence at the scene, including small blood smears on a stairwell wall. Years later, in February 2011, a DNA profile from an unrelated Washington, D.C., case was entered into CODIS and matched that blood evidence. That lead implicated Billy Joe Simon, described as an associate of Neal’s in the drug trade; Simon was arrested in May 2011 and later convicted of first-degree murder and multiple related charges, receiving life plus 20 years. The second masked intruder has not been identified.

Did anyone in the area have contact with Neal or his household around June 2001 who might recognize details about the second intruder?