Jonathan Lawrence Martin, a 29-year-old Black man, was found dead wrapped in a tarp on a moving dolly in a wooded area off Watkins Pond Road in Burke County in August 2015. Early records tied his death to August 19, 2015, and to Waynesboro, but later court filings say he was killed sometime between mid-June and mid-August 2015 in Richmond County and his body was not discovered until August. A hunter located the remains, which had been there for days, and the discovery opened a homicide investigation that crossed county lines.

Martin had been staying at a mobile home belonging to Walter Gerald Salvesen III after being put out of his parents’ house. Salvesen testified that during a long argument he believed Martin was reaching for a gun on a nearby table, grabbed it first, and opened fire; Martin was struck in the chest and head. Salvesen later said he panicked and by the next day Martin’s body had been wrapped, loaded into a truck, moved from Richmond County, and abandoned in Burke County.

Did anyone who knew Jonathan or who was in the area of Watkins Pond Road in August 2015 see or hear anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline?