Thomas Lawson, 45, a former U.S. Air Force veteran who had worked as an ironworker and picked up shifts driving a Yellow Cab, was shot in the head after midnight on January 14, 1984, while sitting in his taxi in the Muldoon neighborhood of Anchorage. Neighbors reported an idling cab, and officers found Lawson behind the wheel; he was taken to Humana Hospital and pronounced dead. Detectives initially treated the scene as a robbery. Witnesses and dispatch records put his last pickup on Muldoon Road, and within days an anonymous caller identified three teenagers and led police to the weapon.

Investigators say the youths had been sizing up cabdrivers, lured Lawson to a cul-de-sac on a pretext, pressed a .22 to his head, then fled on foot after taking twenty-six dollars, later spent on pizza, tossing the handgun onto a nearby mobile home roof. Four days after the killing, all three were charged; contemporaneous coverage named Timothy Burris, 15, and Brett Blanchard, 17, who were waived into adult court. A judge cited a signal Burris gave to shoot and Blanchard’s attempt to minimize the act as a mistake in deciding adult prosecution. The third accomplice remained in juvenile court and was adjudicated there.

Does anyone have information about Lawson’s last fare or the Muldoon Road area that night?