Anthony Martin, a 38-year-old United States Marine veteran, was found shot to death inside his third-floor apartment at the Victoria Square complex in Newport, Kentucky. Family concern began when Martin did not appear for Thanksgiving dinner in 2014; after they checked his apartment and found no sign of him, police executed a search warrant on December 10 and discovered his body hidden in the residence. The scene appeared to have been arranged to conceal wrongdoing.

Investigators identified Anthony Otis Simpson, 52 at the time, as the last person seen with Martin and a person of interest. Simpson was wanted in California on a parole violation tied to a prior murder conviction; Newport police warned he should be considered armed and dangerous and sought information on his whereabouts. Simpson was arrested in July 2016 in Nitro, West Virginia, after a traffic stop where he initially gave a false identity. Records link an Anthony Otis Simpson with aliases and matching descriptors to later incarceration in Kentucky.

Did anyone in Newport or Lexington recognize Martin’s movements or recall seeing him with Simpson in late 2014?