Christopher Cole was 32 when his body was found lying in the street in front of a residence on Fry Street in Mobile, Alabama, on the morning of July 29, 2017. The Mobile Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation and asked the public for information about his movements in the days before his body was discovered.

An arrest in a related string of killings came in September 2017 when Richard Jones was taken into custody after a standoff with police; he was charged in the deaths of both Christopher Cole and 37-year-old Eppie Farris. In October 2020 a jury acquitted Jones in Cole’s killing. Jones was later convicted in Farris’s murder and sentenced to life in April 2022. Cole’s family, including his children, have kept pressing for answers and the Mobile Police Department continues to ask anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone knew Christopher, saw him in late July 2017, or has information not yet shared with investigators, please speak up.