Justin Leigh Barnett was 23 when he disappeared from Birmingham, Alabama, in the early summer of 1995. On the night he vanished he borrowed his girlfriend’s car to go out for drinks with friends, said he was going to meet someone and planned to attend a party where a female friend waited, but he never arrived and could not be reached by phone. A few days later the car was found abandoned in the Lakeview area; there was no sign of Justin and the investigation grew cold.

In January 2015 a man walked into the Birmingham Police Department and described events from June 1995, saying Justin had been lured to an apartment and stabbed during a robbery, then dismembered in the bathtub, and that he had helped dispose of the remains. Authorities reclassified the case as a homicide and arrested Tricia Abney in July 2015; during the same period the man identified as Jeff Martin died. In September 2017 Tricia Abney was convicted of felony murder and given a life sentence.

Justin’s remains have not been found. Does anyone have information about Justin’s last known movements in Birmingham or the Lakeview area that could help bring his family more answers?