On August 9, 2021, 56-year-old William Billy Dixon was shot to death at his home at 60 County Road 3400 in Aztec, New Mexico. A visitor that night, Francine Ross, told investigators she and Dixon smoked drugs together, and that a younger Hispanic man who called himself Cisco arrived, stepped outside with Dixon, and shortly afterward two gunshots were heard. Ross found Dixon on the ground with severe head trauma from a gunshot wound.

The case went cold until July 2023, when Ross and another witness, Kelly Standifer, provided details pointing to a man named Cisco. Detectives identified Cisco as 29-year-old Francisco Vasquez Jr. of Arizona after linking messages on a woman named Nora’s Facebook account to Vasquez and gathering corroborating statements. Vasquez was interviewed in August 2023 and admitted being in Farmington in 2021 and shooting Dixon, saying he obtained a gun, fired two shots to Dixon’s head, and that the killing was in response to alleged rapes by Dixon.

Anyone with information about Dixon, the events at 60 County Road 3400, or Francisco Vasquez Jr. is asked to come forward.