Thomas Harold Gentry, 48, was shot multiple times and found dead in his Norwood, North Carolina home on July 14, 1986. Investigators described the killing as an ambush-style attack. Gentry had served 21 years in the U.S. Army before retiring and returning to his hometown.

The case remained unsolved for many years until Gentry’s brother, Al Gentry, asked authorities to re-open the investigation in 2007. That review led to the arrest of Betty Neumar, Gentry’s wife at the time of his death, on a charge of solicitation of murder. Prosecutors alleged Neumar arranged a murder-for-hire motivated by a $20,000 life insurance policy and approached a former police officer and a neighbor about carrying out the killing. Neumar died of cancer in 2011 before facing trial.

Many questions remain about who carried out the ambush and how the plot was organized. If anyone knew Thomas Gentry or has information about his death, please share what is known.