Leo Nordean Cashatt Jr., 45, was found dead inside his Spokane business, Cashatt Coins, on July 14, 1987. His wife discovered him, and investigators determined he had been fatally shot in the head. The killing became part of a wider pattern when law enforcement linked Cashatt’s death to a series of similar murders of coin dealers across the western United States.

Investigators identified a primary suspect, Charles Thurman Sinclair, a former coin-shop owner alleged to have used his trade knowledge to gain victims’ trust before robbing and shooting them with a small-caliber weapon. Authorities tied Sinclair to at least 11 murders, one attempted murder, and two rapes over about a decade; a composite from a Billings, Montana, crime matched his appearance and strengthened the case against him. Sinclair died of a heart attack in an Anchorage jail in October 1990 while awaiting extradition, and the Cashatt homicide remained officially unresolved.

Did anyone in the Spokane coin-dealing community remember Leo or have information about his business and contacts around July 1987?