Jose Zavala

Jose Zavala, a 39-year-old Hispanic man, was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in a homicide that has since been publicly categorized as a cold case.

In the years that followed, the case lingered in that unsettling space where a life-ending act is known, but the person responsible is not. Publicly available case listings identify the death as a murder under the Memphis Police Department’s jurisdiction, but they do not provide a narrative account of what led up to the killing, how Zavala was ...