Levi Duty, 23, of Cookeville, Tennessee, was found dead in Galveston, Texas, on August 9, 2006. His body was discovered in the trunk of a rental car and the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators could not determine whether the wound was self-inflicted. The Galveston County Medical Examiner concluded Duty had been dead at least a day before the body was found.

Authorities investigated Duty’s death alongside the death of Eleazar Lugo Jr., 32, of San Antonio, whose body was found floating in the surf on the west end of Galveston Island with self-inflicted stab wounds. The proximity of the two deaths prompted police to probe a possible connection, but no arrests or publicly identified suspects were reported in Duty’s case, and no litigation or murder trial followed.

The circumstances remain unresolved and many questions are unanswered. If anyone has information about Levi Duty’s movements in late July or early August 2006, please come forward.