Dallas Beard was 25 when his body was found on October 11, 1994, on Bronco Lane near Maine Avenue in the Eaton Park area of Lakeland, Florida. He had been brutally stabbed. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has linked Beard’s killing to another homicide from the same period, that of Darrell Dillen, who was found in a Lakeland motel room around the same time.

Beard’s death remains unsolved and is being handled by the Polk County Sheriff’s Cold Case Unit. The county’s Homicide Unit continues to prioritize these older cases and has asked the public to provide any information that might help identify those responsible.

If anyone knew Dallas, was in the Eaton Park area in October 1994, or has information about either Beard or the linked Dillen case, contact the Bureau of Criminal Investigations.