Billy Lee Dixon, 32, was found dead in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, on July 2, 1992. A Norfolk resident at the time, he lived on the 3100 block of East Ocean View Avenue and was later buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Norfolk. Initial circumstances of his death were unclear, but investigators eventually linked his case to a pattern of killings in the Hampton Roads area in which victims—often found nude and discarded in remote locations—had been strangled after encounters in or near gay bars.

Authorities identified Elton Manning Jackson as the prime suspect in a series of murders of gay men across the 1980s and 1990s. Jackson was arrested on May 6, 1997, and DNA evidence tied him to the 1996 murder of Andrew D. Andre Smith; he was tried and convicted for Smith’s first-degree murder in August 1998. Jackson was not tried for Dixon’s killing, but law enforcement has linked Dixon’s death to Jackson and the same pattern of murders.

Did anyone in the Norfolk or Isle of Wight County area have contact with Billy Dixon in the weeks before July 2, 1992?