Mathew Caggiano was a 27-year-old construction worker who traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, for work. On the night of June 24, 2022, he was at Copper’s Bar and later went with Hunter Orion Fulton and Erin Wade to a room at the Gas Lite Motel on North 3rd Street. Witness and participant accounts diverge: Wade told investigators she and Fulton used cocaine that night and at one point said Mathew tried to assault her with a knife, while Fulton said he returned to find Mathew attacking Wade and shot him. Mathew died of a single fatal 9 mm gunshot wound to the head; the primary bloodstain was near the motel room door.

Police found his body in the bathtub days later, with postmortem cuts consistent with an attempt to dismember and dispose of the remains. Surveillance and receipts tied Fulton and Wade to purchases of saws and trash bags. Fulton was taken into custody outside the motel on June 29 and Wade was arrested in California on a Wyoming warrant in early July.

Does anyone have information about Mathew’s last hours in Laramie or about the people he met there?