A body was found inside a camper near Salt Creek in the 1100 block of Lafayette Avenue in Oolitic, Indiana, after a call around early afternoon on February 24, 2024. The deceased was identified as James D. Stewart, 42, a White man who had recently moved to Oolitic after living most of his life in Bloomington, according to his sister Sarah Stewart.

Investigators initially treated the scene as a suspicious death. An autopsy on March 1 determined Stewart died of a gunshot wound and the death was ruled a homicide. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office described a broad investigative response: detectives, officers, command staff and senior leadership executed multiple search warrants and collected items believed to be evidentiary, but officials said they had no suspect information to share.

Who saw or heard anything around Lafayette Avenue that afternoon, or who knew James Stewart’s recent movements in Oolitic?