James Ord Watkins, 59, was one of five people found shot to death inside Birmingham’s Changing Times Lounge on October 16, 1994. Watkins, described as a regular patron, was discovered in the bar area alongside Florence Adell Elliott and William A. Nelson Sr.; two employees, Lester and Pamela Dodd, were found in the pool-table area. Investigators reported all five had been shot in the top or back of the head in what courts later called an execution-style killing, and the lounge had been ransacked with the cash register emptied and victims’ belongings scattered.

Witnesses placed two men, Stephen Pilley and Andrew Anthony Apicella, in the lounge that night; testimony described earlier discussions about making easy money and later accounts of the pair returning to a friend’s house before dawn, injecting a cocaine solution, and dividing cash. Does anyone have information about Watkins’s last known movements that night or knew him from the lounge?