Charles Ray Martin, 35, was murdered on May 3, 1993, in Fresno, California. His body was found in the back of his torched pickup truck; he had been shot multiple times in the head before the vehicle was set on fire. This killing was described as one of the early victims in a series of violent crimes carried out in Fresno that spring.

The suspect in the spree, Johnnie Malarkey, was arrested on June 28, 1993, and later confessed to Martin’s murder among others. In a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, Malarkey admitted to ten murders and received multiple consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole along with other long prison terms. Allen Heflin, identified as an accomplice in the spree, later committed suicide.

What details about Charles Ray Martin’s life or movements in Fresno around May 1993 might help shed more light on why he was targeted?