Donald Tsosie was a 40-year-old Navajo man killed after leaving the Turn Around Bar in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. On March 31, 1998, he accepted a ride from two men, Robert Fry and Leslie Engh. The pair beat Tsosie with a shovel, robbed him, and then drove him to Head’s Canyon, about 1,400 feet from the edge of the Navajo Reservation, where they threw his bruised and bleeding body off a cliff. Tsosie’s death was caused by the severe beating.

The case remained unsolved until June 2000, when Fry and Engh were arrested in connection with the murder of Betty Lee. During that investigation Engh confessed to participating in Tsosie’s killing and said they had robbed and beaten him before pushing him from the cliff; a former friend of Fry’s testified that Fry had bragged about beating a Navajo man to death. Engh pleaded guilty to his role in the murders of Tsosie and Lee and received life in prison. Fry was convicted for Tsosie’s murder and received a life sentence.

Did anyone who knew Donald or who lived near Head’s Canyon at the time notice anything unusual in spring 1998?