Byron Kent Barker was a 47-year-old hairstylist from Knoxville who vanished on May 3, 2005; his family reported him missing on May 19, 2005. His 2004 Nissan Altima was later found abandoned in a hotel parking lot in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and investigators found Barker’s blood in the car’s trunk, indicating foul play.

In November 2008 skeletal remains recovered on an East Knox County farm off Midway Road were positively identified as Barker’s, and authorities confirmed the manner of death as homicide while withholding the precise cause to protect the investigation. Suspicion focused on Brett Allen Baker, a former roommate who had moved in with Barker in 2004 and gave misleading information about Barker’s whereabouts; Baker was later convicted of stealing Barker’s belongings and served nine months in jail with probation, and a probation-violation warrant was issued on unrelated charges.

If anyone knew Byron, lived near him, or had contact with him or his roommate in 2005, what information can be shared to help bring clarity to his death?