In late summer 1979 a young man’s body was found in a field in Omaha and identified as 22-year-old Joseph S. Sackett, a city resident. Investigators determined he had died from an execution-style shooting, a detail that pointed to a deliberate, violent killing and left family and community seeking answers.

In the following years law enforcement carried out a large investigation into methamphetamine trafficking in Omaha, focusing on the local Hells Angels chapter. Raids on February 28, 1981, and indictments on February 18, 1981, targeted members and associates, and authorities suspected the group’s activities might be connected to several unsolved violent crimes, including Sackett’s murder.

Despite those probes, no one was ever officially named as a suspect or arrested for Joseph Sackett’s killing, and the case remains unsolved. Did anyone in Omaha in 1979–1981 have information that could finally move this case forward?