In the summer of 1996, 72-year-old Mack Fowler was beaten and stabbed to death inside his Columbus, Mississippi home. On the morning of July 9, his son arrived to borrow a lawnmower and found signs of a violent struggle that appeared to start at the front of the house and end in the back, where Fowler’s body was discovered. Investigators collected evidence at the scene, including DNA, but the case grew cold when there were no immediate matches.

A breakthrough came in 2017 after a DNA sample taken from 52-year-old David Murray following an unrelated aggravated assault arrest in Jackson matched the preserved DNA from Fowler’s murder scene. Murray had been a guest in Fowler’s home the night of the killing. U.S. Marshals arrested Murray in May 2017; he was charged with capital murder, indicted by a Lowndes County grand jury, and held without bond. The case prompted questions about possible links to other unsolved murders of elderly residents in the Columbus area from that period.

Did anyone who knew Mack, lived near him in 1996, or who remembers visitors to his home that summer come forward with information?