Clayton Bexley was 22 when he was killed in Forrest County, Mississippi, in the summer of 2016. Bexley and his girlfriend, Shanna Bre Harper, had accepted shelter from 54-year-old William Allen Gillum of Wiggins while they were short on money. On the night of July 15, 2016, Harper later testified that Gillum tied her up and raped her; during the same incident Bexley was shot in the back of the head. Investigators believe the shooting occurred in a shed at Gillum’s residence; a large amount of blood was found there and Bexley’s body was later moved to a tree line on Carnes Road, where it was discovered with at least one gunshot wound.

Evidence at trial linked Gillum to the crime: gunshot residue and DNA evidence and the firearm used in the killing were tied to him. He was tried for first-degree murder, kidnapping, and rape; the jury convicted him of capital murder, kidnapping, and rape. In December 2018 Judge Jon Mark Weathers sentenced Gillum to life without parole, plus an additional 60 years to run consecutively for the kidnapping and rape counts, after Bexley’s mother Mary Peacock asked that the death penalty be removed.

Does anyone have information about Clayton’s final days in Leakesville or about movements on Carnes Road around July 15, 2016?