In the autumn of 1985, hunters near Sweeney Pond in Glover, Vermont, uncovered a shallow grave containing the remains of a young white male. The cause of death was determined to be a blunt impact to the head, and with no identification he was buried in a pauper’s grave marked No. 9.

A separate family in Clay, Kentucky, had been searching for Roger Gene Jeffreys, a 22-year-old husband and father of twins who left home in September 1984 saying he was going to Canada with a man he met while hitchhiking. He phoned his mother once a few days later and was never heard from again. In 2002 investigators linked the Vermont John Doe to Jeffreys through medical and dental comparisons and matching details such as a tattoo with the initials RGJ and evidence of a childhood arm fracture; his remains were officially identified in January 2003.

The identification gave Jeffreys’ family the chance for a proper burial but did not solve his murder. At the time he disappeared there was an arrest warrant for him, which investigators noted as possible context for his departure. The person or people responsible have not been brought to justice.

Did anyone who knew Roger or who traveled between Kentucky and northern New England in 1984–85 have information to share?