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On a late Sunday afternoon in June 2014, 36-year-old Rebekah Sue Bletsch was found dead on the side of Automobile Road in Dalton Township, Michigan, less than a mile from her home along her regular jogging route. Investigators initially considered a hit-and-run, but bullet casings at the scene showed she had been shot multiple times in the head; valuables remained on her person, making robbery an unlikely motive.

A break in the investigation came in April 2016 when a 16-year-old escaped an abduction from a man in a silver van and provided a detailed description. Police arrested 46-year-old Jeffrey Thomas Willis; officers recovered a handgun, ammunition, restraints and other evidence from his van and home. Ballistics testing matched the handgun to the rounds that killed Bletsch, and digital forensics uncovered a folder labeled VICS with a subfolder bearing Bletsch’s initials and the date of her death.

Willis was charged with Bletsch’s murder and later found guilty of first-degree murder and felony firearm charges; the prosecution emphasized the ballistics match and the so-called digital trophy files. If anyone knew Rebekah or saw her on Automobile Road that day, please share what you remember.