It’s been months since crime scene tape surrounded the Jessamine County home where 49-year-old Dale “Monty” Burgess was found shot to death.

No arrests have been made more than five months later, and investigators are asking for help to find the person responsible for Burgess’ murder that remains unsolved.

“There are a lot of pieces that still need to be put together. Without information, we can’t make a determination on what was motive behind this,” said Dep. Anthony Purcell.

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On April 5th, a family member found Burgess dead in his home on Elm Fork Road. Jessamine County investigators say the scene provided little evidence to go on. In the days after the murder, they say they interviewed some people of interest and received a few tips but nothing led to an arrest.

“We’re not ruling anything out unfortunately. We are missing a lot of things,” Dep. Purcell said.

Five months later, investigators need the community’s help finding who’s responsible and believe someone may hold valuable information, but might not know it.

“Anything that the public might know or even if they don’t think it’s directly related but somehow it just didn’t set right with them, if they’d give us a call. Let us at least take a look at it,” he said.

The Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office is focusing on any suspicious vehicles that may have been spotted the morning or early afternoon of April 5th.

“Most of the people who live in that area know who comes and goes. They might have seen someone who didn’t belong or something that didn’t set right with them. And now, looking back they think they may know a vehicle description that kind of seemed out of place for them,” Dep. Purcell said.

If you have any information about this shooting, call the Jessamine County Sheriff’s Department.

A newlywed wife was charged Monday with killing her husband by pushing him off a cliff in Glacier National Park during an argument just a week after they got married.

Charging documents suggest Jordan Linn Graham, 22, was having second thoughts about getting married around the time the body of her husband, Cody Lee Johnson, 25, of Kalispell, was discovered.

Graham told an FBI agent that she and her husband had been arguing July 7 as they walked in the Loop Trail area of the park.

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At one point, she turned to walk away, but Johnson grabbed her arm, she said. She turned around, removed his hand from her arm and “due to her anger, she pushed Johnson with both hands in the back, and as a result, he fell face first off the cliff,” an affidavit states.

Johnson was reported missing July 8 when he failed to show up for work. Graham later reported that she had spotted his body.

Graham made an initial court appearance Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch on a charge of second-degree murder. She is currently in custody.

Her attorney, public defender Andrew Nelson, declined to comment.

Johnson’s family and friends were relieved after calling for an investigation since his body was recovered July 12.

“Two months probably isn’t very long for an FBI investigation, but when you’re waiting for answers, that’s a lifetime,” family friend Tracey Maness said.

Maness said Johnson was excited about his wedding and in love with Graham.

Graham initially told investigators that Johnson left their house late July 7 with unidentified friends in a dark-colored car with Washington state license plates.

That night, she texted a friend and said she was about to talk to Johnson about her reservations about having gotten married the previous weekend.

The friend, identified only by initials, told the FBI about receiving the text from Graham just before 9 p.m. in which Graham said, “Oh well, I’m going to talk to him.”

The friend responded, “I’ll pray for you guys.”

Graham replied, “But dead serious if u don’t hear from me at all again tonight, something happened.”

Another friend said Graham reported receiving an email July 10 saying Johnson had left with three friends, went hiking, had fallen and was dead.

The next day, Graham reported to park officials that she had spotted Johnson’s body. A ranger thought that was unusual, but Graham explained, “It was a place he wanted to see before he died,” authorities said.

Graham was interviewed July 16 and acknowledged lying about her husband’s death, authorities said.

A 47-year-old Poplarville man faces up to 22 years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft involving checks he stole from someone’s home.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1alXkRP ) Cleveland Andrew Galloway has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft and will be sentenced in federal court Nov. 25.

An indictment returned in July accused him of stealing the checks and using them to put thousands of dollars into two different bank accounts that used variations of his name. The nine-count indictment also charged him with bank fraud.

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Galloway was set for trial this week but changed his plea. He is held without bond pending sentencing.

The body of a Fort Bragg man reported missing last week was found Sunday down a cliff along with a gun, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported.

According to the MCSO, Patrick Guzman, 70, of Fort Bragg, was reported missing Sept. 3 after his vehicle, a white 1999 Cadillac Deville, was found unoccupied the day before with the engine running in a pullout along Highway 1 in Westport, several miles north of Fort Bragg.

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Guzman was identified as the registered owner of the vehicle, and after unsuccessfully trying to contact him and his family members, the MCSO declared him a missing person.

At around 5 p.m. Sept. 8, Tony Reed, a reporter with the Fort Bragg Advocate-News, was examining the area where Guzman’s vehicle was located.

Using the telephoto lens on his camera, Reed reportedly saw a handgun on the steep bluff down to the ocean, and later located a white shoe in the rocks, approximately 150 feet below.

Reed then flagged down a passing California Department of Fish and Wildlife warden who called MCSO deputies. The deputies found Guzman’s body, requesting the aid of the Westport Volunteer Fire Department to retrieve it.

The handgun, which belonged to Guzman, was also recovered. According to the MCSO, the cause of Guzman’s death is still under investigation.

The Fayette County coroner’s office has released the identity of a man who was killed in a violent rollover crash early Tuesday morning.

The accident happened at about 1 a.m. on Old Richmond Road near the intersection of Jack’s Creek Pike. Firefighters found a man, identified as Martin Rankin, 41, of Richmond, trapped in his truck, and by the time they could get him any help, he had already died.

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Police say the truck was heading south when it left the road and hit a downed tree limb. That sent it flipping sideways into a utility pole and then a tree. The impact sent the truck rolling into the roadway where it finally stopped.

First responders say Rankin, who was not wearing a seat belt, was the only person inside. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man charged with having sex with a girl who was about 3 years old at the time is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday in federal court in Jackson.

Marco Laquin Rogers, 27, was charged in October after authorities said they found a video of him and another man having sex with the girl in a Jackson hotel room. The video, which investigators believe was made in May 2012, shows the girl crying out in pain as she’s assaulted, according to an affidavit filed in court records.

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Another suspect in the case, Jemery Atral Hodges, has pleaded guilty and is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 30.

Both men were indicted Nov. 7 on two counts each — sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and selling or buying of children.

Rogers’ lawyer didn’t respond to a message. He has been held without bond.

The sex trafficking charge in the indictment says the men transported the child “knowing that she would be caused to engage in commercial sex acts.” The other charge says they coerced a minor to engage in “sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction.”

The trafficking charge carries a penalty of 15 years to life in prison. The second charge is punishable by 15 to 30 years in behind bars.

Court records say the investigation began on Sept. 6, 2012, in Cambridge, Mass., after Hodges visited another man and showed him explicit images of children on his cellphone. The man kicked Hodges out of his house and called police, court records said.

Hodges told authorities Rogers had access to a 3-year-old girl for sexual acts, according to an affidavit filed in court records. The complaint also said Rogers traveled with the child to and from Atlanta, Jackson and Memphis, Tenn.

Court records say both men are from Mississippi, but Rogers had been living in Atlanta and Hodges was staying in Cambridge, Mass. The affidavit said Rogers worked at a hospital in Atlanta, but did not say which one or what kind of job he did.

The complaint that initially charged Rogers in October said authorities served him with a court order compelling him to allow agents to photograph scars on his stomach and right leg. The affidavit said the scars matched those on a man in the video.

Two people were killed Monday in an accident involving six vehicles that shut down Interstate 64 for several hours.

The two men killed had apparently stopped to check on the drivers of the vehicles involved in an accident when they were hit.

The accident happened near mile marker 38 heading west in I-64 around 11:30 Monday. The initial accident happened when a semi side swiped a box truck, then went in the median with a third vehicle. The second accident happened when a second semi hit two other vehicles, a van and a company van, that had stopped on the left shoulder.

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The victims have been identified as 71-year-old Charles Burtt of Broad Run, Virginia, and 33-year-old Jamaal Wood of Louisville.

Police say both Burtt and Wood were outside their vehicles at the time of impact.

The Shelby County coroner said their deaths will be ruled blunt force injuries sustained after being struck in a motor vehicle accident.

Police say Burtt’s wife witnessed him being struck. She was calling 911 when he was hit to tell them about the first accident they saw.

The coroner said the family planned to claim the body and go back to Virginia. Police say Wood was a brand new father and worked at SCM Life Oxygen in Louisville. Funeral arrangements for Burtt and Wood are pending.

Officials say that Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies will be doing more investigation on Tuesday. It is unclear if any charges will be filed.

I-64 was reopened Monday around 10:00 p.m.

The last time her mother saw her, Alexandra “Ali” Ponte was in her Woodland Park home around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.