James Weston Chambers was a 1984 visitor to Florida who was shot and killed on the night of August 10. He had traveled from Tampa to Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach and Naples that day and was last officially seen at Witches’ Brew Restaurant and Lounge in Naples at about 10:30 pm. Around 11:30 pm he was driving northbound on I-75, pulled into the emergency lane for unknown reasons, and was approached and shot several times; deputies found him the next morning in his late-model white Honda Accord with four gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

His wallet was stolen and later found two to three miles from the scene along with other identification. After his death investigators looked into two men recently released from the Hendry County jail who had posed as DEA investigators and into Aileen Wuornos following a 2007 tip; the FBI concluded Wuornos was not responsible. The murder remains unsolved.

Anyone with information about James Chambers or that night is asked to contact Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers.