Village Marshal Murray Wilson Griffin, 65, was shot and killed with his own weapon on July 5, 1986, in Belle Center, Ohio. A World War II veteran, he had served with the Belle Center Village Police Department for 25 years. He was responding to a domestic disturbance call at 211 Main Street when he was found shot to death; the female complainant at that address was also found stabbed to death.

About four years after the killings a suspect was arrested, but all charges were eventually dropped and no new charges were ever filed. The case remains unsolved and Marshal Griffin is buried in Fair View Cemetery in Belle Center. Community members have urged the case be reopened, noting advances such as DNA analysis that might help, and his sacrifice is honored by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation.

Does anyone with knowledge of Belle Center in 1986 or the people involved have information that could help bring new leads?