Eric Michael Nesbitt, 21, an airman 1st class and transportation specialist stationed at Langley Air Force Base, was abducted and murdered on August 16, 1996, in a remote area of York County, Virginia. He left a part-time job at an auto parts store intending to meet a friend at the base but never arrived; his body was found the next day by a motorist. He had been shot eight times in the arms, stomach, and back with a small-caliber semiautomatic pistol.

Investigators traced two bank withdrawals Nesbitt made the night he disappeared using ATM security footage that showed him in his truck between two other men. Tips generated by media circulation of that footage led to arrests. Eighteen-year-old Darryl R. Adkins of Hampton was arrested first and confessed, saying Nesbitt was a random robbery target; he faced charges including murder, robbery, abduction, and a weapons violation. William Jones was arrested soon after when a police tactical squad surrounded a Newport News hotel where Nesbitt’s truck was found behind the building.

Did anyone who knew Eric or who lived in Hampton or Newport News in 1996 see him, his truck, or those men that night?