On the evening of October 12, 1990, a Rogers, Arkansas husband returned from a business trip and found an interior door open between the garage and kitchen. He went to the basement storage room and discovered his 62-year-old wife, Jane Martha Daniel, lying dead in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to the back of her head described as execution-style. Investigators found a Kool cigarette butt left in a rice bowl in the kitchen; neither Jane nor her husband smoked. A burglary at a neighbor’s home earlier that day produced a missing .44 caliber magnum revolver, the same type used in the killing.

Evidence linked Don Davis to the neighbor burglary and to the Daniel home; he is believed to have led Jane through the house, taken valuables, taken her to the basement and shot her, then fled to Bentonville and later pawned stolen items in Las Vegas. The FBI arrested Davis in Albuquerque after he requested Kool filter king cigarettes like the one found at the scene. Davis was convicted of capital murder in 1992 and sentenced to death.

Does anyone have information about Jane’s life in Rogers or about the neighborhood that day?