Freddy Morales, 21 and a resident of Cathedral City, was found dead in the driveway of a home on Sixth Street in Desert Hot Springs on March 27, 2017. His body was discovered early that morning and authorities ruled his death a homicide. Initial circumstances were unclear and no suspects were immediately identified.

Investigators later linked Morales’ death to a second homicide on the same street two days later. On March 29, 2017, Jose Gabriel Madrigal Vargas was found fatally shot inside a Sixth Street home. Orlando Archuleta, a friend of Morales, later admitted he believed Vargas was involved in Morales’ death and, with another suspect, confronted Vargas that night and shot him multiple times; Archuleta was wounded by return fire, was arrested, convicted in November 2018, and sentenced to 30 years to life for Vargas’ killing.

Despite that conviction, no one has been publicly identified or charged in Morales’ killing and the investigation remains open. Did anyone in Desert Hot Springs see or hear anything relevant around March 27, 2017?