On the night of September 17, 2022, deputies found 52-year-old Timothy Meredith dead aboard a boat on Greers Ferry Lake near Heber Springs, Arkansas, from an apparent gunshot wound. Timothy’s wife, Jackie Meredith, was on the boat and in high distress; she told investigators she had heard a gunshot and believed her husband had shot himself. A Taurus .380 handgun was found under Timothy’s right hand and the body was sent for autopsy.

The medical examiner could not determine a definitive manner of death and described the wound as atypical of a suicide. Jackie later told detectives they had been boating with friends, she fell asleep, and Timothy woke her to gather her things; she said her back was to him when she heard the shot and felt him brush against her as he fell. Investigators concluded evidence at the scene had been tampered with and that the gun had been moved.

On December 12, 2023, Jackie Meredith pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of tampering with physical evidence; a judge suspended a 45-day jail sentence on the condition she commit no criminal offenses for one year. The manner of Timothy Meredith’s death remains officially undetermined and the case unsolved. Does anyone have information about Timothy’s last evening on the lake or observations from Greers Ferry Lake that night?