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James Wilkins, 27, vanished from his Warren home in June 2023, prompting an investigation after family and friends reported him missing. Wilkins was a father and a football coach. Police described the circumstances of his disappearance as suspicious and focused quickly on his roommate, 27-year-old Donald Renfroe.

A search of the shared apartment turned up a freshly patched bullet hole in a wall and what investigators believed was blood. Records show Renfroe rented cleaning equipment and bought additional cleaning supplies on the day Wilkins disappeared. Authorities say Renfroe enlisted a friend, 28-year-old Darius Glenn, to help clean the apartment and, investigators believe, to dispose of Wilkins’s body. Renfroe left Michigan and was later taken into custody in Ohio on unrelated charges and returned to Michigan.

In November 2023, investigators located a shallow grave in a remote area of Oscoda Township, about 130 miles from Warren; a Michigan State Police cadaver dog assisted at the scene and Wilkins’s body was recovered. Renfroe has been charged in connection with Wilkins’s death, and Glenn has also been charged. Did anyone in the Warren or Oscoda Township area see or hear anything in June 2023 that could help investigators?