In autumn 2016, 60-year-old environmental scientist Dale Klettke was found shot to death near Fossil Creek, southeast of Camp Verde, Arizona. Witnesses saw Dale and a man matching the description of his 21-year-old son, Francis Klettke, at a campsite on October 26, 2016; the pair appeared to be getting along that day. A nearby camper reported hearing multiple gunshots that evening and discovered the next morning that Dale’s silver Jeep Liberty was gone. Deputies later found his body wrapped in a bloody tent with ten gunshot wounds, and fingerprint analysis identified him.

Detectives focused on the man seen with Dale, who matched his son Francis. Francis was located by Union City police on October 29, 2016, sleeping in his father’s SUV, arrested in a traffic stop and later extradited to Arizona on a charge of first-degree murder. He underwent a competency evaluation and was declared competent to stand trial; a judge set bond at $200,000, which his mother posted. While out on bond, Francis was arrested in May 2019 on allegations of setting multiple fires in Phoenix. The murder trial was scheduled for January 2020.

What information can anyone share about Dale’s time in Arizona that week or about his relationship with Francis leading up to the trip?