Jeffery Marcus Coppock, 51, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the back at a residence on Garrett-Oxley Road between Cochran and Eastman on Christmas Day 2014. Investigators estimated the shooting occurred sometime between the early morning hours and 8 a.m. that morning. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation responded to the scene.

Randall Carr, 35, who lived with Coppock, made the 911 call around noon and later admitted to killing his roommate. Carr told authorities he believed Coppock had been using a mind-control machine on him and neighbors; that delusion was reported as the apparent motive. Coppock’s family remembered him as a carpenter with a knack for making people laugh.

A Dodge County jury found Randall Carr guilty of murder in February 2016. Did anyone in the Gresston area know Coppock or notice unusual behavior from either man before that Christmas?