Eyewitness News is digging into how investigators cracked a cold case with the help of the murder victim's finances, leading to his alleged killer's arrest nearly four years later.
The financial records of Daniel Howey, whose body was found in Dutton Lake in 2020, led to two men being charged with his murder, investigators say.Howey was a 37-year-old man who needed a wheelchair and had intellectual and developmental disabilities."Mr. Howey was basically discarded like a bag of trash," Chambers County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Lt. Tanner Dickens said. "He was primarily in the care of that group home, and Mr.
Investigators told ABC13 that eyewitnesses say Howey threatened to report Richardson for stealing his settlement money. "I don't know the extent of his involvement in the finances, but I believe he was an acquaintance of Mr. Richardson," Dickens said.
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