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Phillip Dover, 31, of Gainesville, Georgia, was one of three businessmen found shot execution-style in their room at the Atlanta Hilton & Towers on October 18, 1998. Dover and two associates, Ronald Gutkowski, 51, and Gerrold Shropshire, 50, were discovered side-by-side in their underwear; their wallets were missing, and the scene suggested a robbery.

Hotel security footage captured a grainy image of an unknown man with one of the victims in an elevator and later leaving the hotel carrying a cooler that belonged to one of the men. A firearms stop in Memphis led to the arrest of Timothy Carl Dawson; officers found a loaded .45-caliber handgun plus identification and personal items belonging to Dover and the other victims. Ballistics testing matched the handgun to the murders, and DNA from a victim was identified on a baseball cap Dawson was wearing when arrested. Eyewitnesses also identified Dawson from the surveillance footage.

Did anyone who knew Phillip Dover or his colleagues ever see them in Atlanta that week or recognize the man on the surveillance image?