Desmond Anthony Fergus, a 27-year-old Black man, was found partially submerged in a ditch in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, on August 19, 1992. Authorities determined he had been shot multiple times; three bullets were recovered from his body. Decomposition suggested the body had been in the ditch for at least two days, placing the likely date of the incident at August 17, 1992. The death was officially classified as a homicide.

Fergus’s vehicle was recovered in Suffolk on August 24, 1992, five days after his body was found, but that lead did not yield arrests or identified suspects. The Virginia State Police list the case as an active cold case; no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified.

If anyone has information about Desmond Fergus, his vehicle, or movements in Isle of Wight County or Suffolk in mid-August 1992, please come forward with what you know.