David Schallart was an 18-year-old White male from Pensacola whose body was found February 6, 1980, about 125 feet off the eastbound lane of Interstate 10, five miles east of Chipley. He had been shot five times in the left side of the head, a killing described as execution-style. Reports say he was hitchhiking at the time he was killed.

In 1984 Ottis Elwood Toole, a White male born in Jacksonville, later convicted of multiple murders, confessed to picking up Schallart east of Pensacola, shooting him and leaving his body near the highway. Toole’s confession to this killing was treated as credible by law enforcement because he provided details matching the scene; no other suspects have been publicly identified.

Does anyone have memories, records, or information about Schallart’s last movements or about hitchhiking along that stretch of I-10 in early 1980?