On the afternoon of August 8, 2018, 38-year-old Terry Malcom Stidham of Busy, Kentucky was found dead in his pickup truck on the shoulder of Elm Shoal Branch Road in Combs. Perry County 911 received a call at 2:25 p.m. reporting a man in a truck with apparent gunshot wounds. Kentucky State Police, Perry County Sheriff’s Deputies and EMS responded; Stidham was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene by the Perry County Deputy Coroner. An autopsy was scheduled the next day at the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort to determine the exact cause of death.

Following evidence processing and interviews, detectives with KSP Post 13 arrested 37-year-old Harold Hayes of Busy on August 13, 2018 and charged him with one count of murder; he was lodged in the Kentucky River Regional Jail. Stidham, a diesel mechanic, was survived by a son, a daughter and a brother.

Did anyone in the area know Stidham or see activity on Elm Shoal Branch Road that afternoon?