On the morning of Saturday, March 4, 2023, a deputy on patrol found a white four-door Chevrolet Malibu in a ditch off Highway C in the Town of Grafton, Wisconsin. The car’s interior had burned briefly, leaving soot-darkened windows, and inside was the body of 49-year-old Laeng Sanavongsay, described as a man from Texas with no apparent local ties.

An autopsy later confirmed Sanavongsay died from a gunshot wound. Authorities called the death suspicious and began treating it as a homicide, believing it to be a targeted, isolated incident. The vehicle was a rental registered to a company in Illinois, a detail investigators noted while reconstructing the movements that brought him to Grafton.

If anyone knew Laeng Sanavongsay’s movements before March 4, 2023, or has information about the rental vehicle, please come forward.