Robert Fields was 32 when he was found dead on July 14, 1997, in an apartment at 215 Village Street #1 in Hamilton, Ohio. Officers had responded to reports of gunshots and discovered Fields on the apartment floor with an apparent gunshot wound; his death was classified as a homicide.

The Hamilton Police Department investigated, but the case remains unsolved. Members of the Butler County community have periodically tried to renew attention on cold cases, including Fields’s. Activist Hope Dudley has helped spread awareness by creating posters featuring victims and distributing them in local areas, including jails, to reach people who might have information. Family and law enforcement continue to ask anyone with potential information to come forward in hopes of bringing closure to Fields’s family.