William Ted Foster, 49, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was found dead on June 23, 2015, behind a storage building in the 900 block of Tom Starling Road after firefighters responded to a fire. The autopsy found he had been beaten and strangled, had cuts and bruises to his head, and his wrists were bound with fabric strips and an electrical cord; his body had been set on fire.

The investigation led to arrests of three people. Justin Quick, 20, of Hope Mills, and Misty Dawn Burns, 24, of Fayetteville, were detained in Carolina Beach two days later while driving Foster’s car and using his credit cards; Burns had been living with Foster after meeting him through a dating service. Christopher Lynn Charles, 26, of Fayetteville, was charged with kidnapping and attempting to kill Foster and was described as a heroin addict with prior larceny convictions.

Foster’s daughter said he was a kind man who liked helping others; he had separated from his wife months earlier and was living in a mobile home park on Paddlefish Drive. Does anyone have information about Foster’s last days or his contacts in Fayetteville in June 2015?