Christopher Walker, 22 and from Linwood, Pennsylvania, disappeared shortly before he was to testify as a federal drug informant against Vincent L. Perry in a methamphetamine trial set for July 20, 1983. Press accounts placed his abduction on July 1, 1983.

On May 24, 1985, Walker’s remains were exhumed from a shallow grave near Christiana, just outside Newark, Delaware. Investigators determined he had been shot multiple times before burial. Testimony later described an ambush on a rural property off Patterson Lane: Charles Kevin Kelly allegedly stepped from the dark and shot Walker repeatedly, then John Hall was ordered to fire two shots into Walker’s head; the body was buried and Walker’s clothes allegedly dumped in the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. Hall later cooperated with prosecutors and identified Perry and Kelly as participants.

In a fall 1986 New Castle County trial, Vincent L. Perry and Charles Kevin Kelly were convicted of first-degree murder and first-degree conspiracy; the jury declined to impose the death penalty and both received life sentences. The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed Kelly’s convictions in May 1990.

If anyone knew Walker, his movements in summer 1983, or the property off Patterson Lane, please share what is known.