Michael Dubaniewicz, 52, was found dead of a gunshot wound in the kitchen of his Castleton, Vermont, home on March 8, 1998. The Vermont State Police classified the death as a homicide; two other people were in the house when he was shot. One of those individuals was later charged with a federal firearms violation, but no one has been criminally charged in the shooting and the homicide remains unsolved.

The executor of Dubaniewicz’s estate, his brother, pursued a wrongful death civil suit naming the two people who had been living in the house as defendants. Court filings state that one defendant had purchased the weapon used in the shooting shortly before the death. The criminal investigation remains open but the key questions about what happened in that kitchen have not been answered.

If anyone knew Michael, lived in Castleton then, or has information about the people who were in his home that day, please share what is known.