John Davis, 51, of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, was killed on September 28, 2018. His death was later linked to a series of brutal murders in southwestern Pennsylvania attributed to Edward Arthur Surratt.

Surratt, a Vietnam War veteran and former long-haul trucker, was arrested in Florida in July 1978 for an armed home invasion. Investigators found connections to several unsolved Pennsylvania killings, and in 2021 Surratt confessed to killing six people in Pennsylvania, including John Davis. That confession contributed to solving multiple cold cases and provided some measure of closure to victims’ families.

What facts about John Davis’s life or that period in Aliquippa might help explain how he became a target or assist anyone with additional information?