On June 23, 2014, Nicholas Fields, 56, was found shot to death inside his mobile home in Paoli, Indiana. The shooting was part of a triple shooting that also killed 25-year-old Corey Michael Harris and left 29-year-old Daniel Smitson with a gunshot wound to the mouth. Investigators determined the motive was drug-related: three men traveled to Fields’s home intending to obtain methamphetamine.

According to a confession by Elbert Edward Brooks, Brooks stayed in the vehicle while James L. Davidson and John R. Carpenter went inside, and gunfire followed. Firearms were taken from Fields’s residence and later discarded in a river. A manhunt led to the arrests of Brooks, Davidson, and Carpenter within days. The three were charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of robbery; Davidson and Carpenter faced habitual criminal allegations.

Court outcomes reported by this date include Brooks pleading guilty to murder and attempted robbery and receiving 100 years; Carpenter being convicted by a jury of murder, voluntary manslaughter, and robbery and receiving 50 years; and Davidson pleading guilty to robbery resulting in serious bodily injury and receiving 40 years after murder and attempted murder charges were dropped. Did anyone in Paoli or the surrounding area have information about Fields’s movements or visitors that June?