James Marchman, 34, was found shot and left in a ditch on Butner Road near Butner Estates in South Fulton, Georgia, on March 8, 2018, after returning to the Atlanta area to visit friends. The location was an isolated stretch beside new construction, a place where someone could be abandoned and not discovered for some time. Authorities treated his death as a homicide.

Family made the loss public: his mother, Arlene Marchman, spoke about the shock of learning her son had been shot to death after that visit. South Fulton police listed detectives on the case and asked anyone with information to come forward; reporting from about a month after the killing said no arrests had been made.

Who knew James in the Atlanta area, or who might have seen him on Butner Road that day?