Jeff Thomas, 33, of Dayton, Ohio, was murdered on August 26, 2003, in what prosecutors described as a meticulously planned murder-for-hire tied to drug trafficking. Thomas’s role as a police informant and his connections to people in the drug trade were said to create a motive for eliminating him as a perceived threat. Hubbard and an accomplice, Schawn Little, allegedly lured Thomas to a remote wooded area near Dayton under the pretense of committing a robbery.

There Hubbard shot Thomas in the back of the head, left his body, and the men fled after abandoning a vehicle that belonged to Thomas’s father, then hitched back to Middletown. Venue questions arose because planning occurred in Butler County while the killing occurred in Montgomery County, but the jurisdictions were treated as connected. Convictions followed and those directly responsible received lengthy sentences, including life terms.

Has anyone with knowledge of Thomas, the locations mentioned, or those involved come forward with information?