Lieutenant Thurman Earl Sharp, 55, was found murdered on the morning of December 25, 1988, after taking an off-duty shift at the Presidential Industrial Park on Priority Way West Drive in Indianapolis so a younger officer could be with family. Sometime between about 4 and 6 a.m. he left his patrol car; the officer who arrived to relieve him discovered his body around 8 a.m. He had been shot three times at point-blank range with a .380-caliber handgun. One shot was a contact wound inflicted as he lay mortally wounded. His service weapon was still holstered at his side.

The scene suggested the killing was staged to conceal it: his body had been dragged and left behind a retaining wall out of immediate sight, and his patrol car was moved and hidden behind a dumpster near heavy equipment. Investigators pursued leads including a possible interrupted burglary at a nearby gun store and theories of a targeted revenge killing, but no suspects were identified and the case later went cold. He left a wife and six children.

Does anyone have information about Lieutenant Sharp that could help reopen leads in this unsolved case?