Joseph Annick, 56, was shot five times in the chest and stomach with a .22-caliber weapon while working in his garage on the East Side of Columbus, Ohio, on December 4, 1978. His killing is described as the final murder in a string of ten homicides across Central Ohio attributed to brothers Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon, who became known as the .22-Caliber Killers.

Five days after Annick’s death a store clerk, 17-year-old Cheryl Young, flagged a customer trying to use Annick’s stolen credit card; that customer was detained as Gary Lewingdon. Gary later confessed to participating in the ten murders and said his brother Thaddeus was involved in all but the last killing. Investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Thaddeus, who was living in Glenford, Ohio, and worked as a maintenance man at Columbus Steel Drum. Both brothers had prior petty offenses including theft and illegal weapons possession; they were ultimately sentenced to life in prison.

Thaddeus Lewingdon died of lung cancer in 1989 and Gary Lewingdon died of heart failure in 2004. Did anyone who knew Joseph Annick or saw him in late 1978 notice anything unusual about his garage routine or the people in his neighborhood?