On July 23, 1993, 56-year-old James Jordan was killed while sleeping in his red Lexus SC400 on U.S. Route 74 near Lumberton, North Carolina. He had been returning to Charlotte from a friend’s funeral in Wilmington when two 18-year-old men, Daniel Andre Green and Larry Martin Demery, approached the vehicle. Court records say Green shot Jordan; the pair then stole the car and other belongings and left Jordan’s body in a swamp near McColl, South Carolina, where it was found 11 days later in a decomposed state.

Investigators traced calls from Jordan’s car phone to associates of Green and Demery. Both were arrested and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Demery later accepted a plea deal in 1996, testified that Green was the shooter, and received a life term with parole eligibility; Green was convicted and given life without parole. Questions about the investigation and evidence handling have surfaced over the years, and Green’s legal team filed motions seeking a new trial; a retired judge from the original trial has since expressed doubts and petitioned for parole consideration.

Did anyone who knew James or who was in that area in July 1993 see the red Lexus or notice anything unusual along U.S. Route 74?