Eddie Frank Sole was 58 and living in Shorewood, Minnesota, when he disappeared in the summer of 2013. Family members expected him to return to Chicago in early August after he told them he planned to leave his 29-year-old girlfriend, Jetaun Helen Wheeler, and had reported to friends and relatives that Wheeler had been assaulting him and acting erratically. When he did not arrive, his family contacted police; Wheeler initially told them he had gone back to Chicago.

A search warrant executed at Wheeler’s Shorewood home on August 21, 2013, uncovered attempts to conceal a violent death. Two pieces of carpeting were found under Wheeler’s mattress, one saturated with what appeared to be blood. A new freezer hidden behind two mattresses in the garage contained Sole’s body wrapped in plastic. The autopsy reported blunt force trauma to head and face, a deep cut to the left eye and side of the head, bruising on the arms, defensive wounds to the hands, and bleeding in the neck muscles.

Wheeler was arrested and charged with second-degree murder; prosecutors alleged Sole had been beaten with a closet rod. On the fourth day of trial Wheeler pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder after her defense argued she had acted in self-defense during a fight. Prosecutors sought the maximum 15-year sentence. Does anyone have information about Sole’s final days or contacts in Shorewood that could shed more light on what happened?