Cort Gatlin was 29 when he vanished from Summit, Mississippi. He was reported missing on August 26, 2016, which was also his birthday. His body was recovered on September 1, 2016, in the Bogue Chitto River south of Alford’s Bridge. He had been shot three times in the head, his hands and legs were bound, his mouth covered with duct tape, and his body showed signs of burning.

Investigators arrested two McComb residents, 25-year-old Anthony J. Dauden and 26-year-old Bridget A. Dillon, and charged them with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Dauden confessed and implicated others, and prosecutors said the plot ultimately involved five people. Court filings described Gatlin being beaten, bound, forced into a car trunk, driven to Alford’s Bridge, and shot in the neck area.

Bridget Dillon pleaded guilty to reduced counts of second-degree murder and conspiracy and received a 25-year prison sentence. The remaining defendants’ cases were ordered bound over to a grand jury. Does anyone have information about Gatlin’s movements in Summit in the days before August 26, 2016?