Twenty-one-year-old Michael L. Smith of Indianapolis was reported missing by his mother, Sharon Smith, after he failed to meet her for lunch on Monday, December 15, 2003. Two days after he was last seen, someone set fire to his house on West 27th Street and to his truck. Michael’s mother also received a phone call from an unknown voice demanding to know the whereabouts of a person named Art in exchange for Michael’s safe return.

A week after he disappeared a passerby found Michael’s body face down in the White River and flagged down a Marion County sheriff’s deputy. Paramedics pronounced him dead; an autopsy found a gunshot wound as the cause of death. No suspects have been identified in the kidnapping, arson or murder, and no arrests have been announced.

Who knew Michael, Art, or anything about that December 2003 ransom call or the arson on West 27th Street?