Frank Wesley Davies IV, a 31-year-old Mountain Brook resident, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds inside a family hunting property in Sylacauga, Alabama. Deputies were called to a home on the 1700 block of Odena Road North on Sunday, November 15, 2025, and discovered his body there.

Authorities arrested 36-year-old Joshua Thomas Bettis of Childersburg on Friday, November 21, 2025, and charged him with Davies’ murder. At a preliminary hearing in December 2025, a Sheriff’s Office investigator testified that Bettis had confessed to going to the residence to buy fentanyl from Davies and that an altercation followed after money was exchanged but the drugs were not delivered. A district court judge found sufficient evidence to send the case to a grand jury.

Anyone who knew Frank, saw activity at the Odena Road property in mid-November, or has information about the events leading to that night is asked to come forward.