On the evening of April 28, 2015, a passerby entering woods off Sunset Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, found a parked vehicle and the body of 30-year-old Jeffrey Raphael of Lynn. Responding Wakefield Police and Massachusetts State Police detectives determined Raphael had suffered fatal gunshot wounds; investigators classified the death as a homicide and said the act did not appear random, though no motive was identified in early reports.

The wooded, residential area around Sunset Street and adjacent Briarwood Lane was searched and forensically examined. In December 2016 investigators returned to search a spot off Briarwood Lane with a backhoe and metal detectors seeking evidence such as a weapon or clothing. As of the latest public information, no arrests have been announced and no suspects or persons of interest have been released.

Did anyone in the Wakefield or Lynn area know Raphael’s routines or see him in that neighborhood around late April 2015?