Wes Burks, 48, was found dead in Shreveport, Louisiana, on June 24, 1985. His killing occurred during a summer when a string of brutal, apparently random murders terrorized the city.

Investigators came to suspect that Nathaniel Code was responsible for multiple violent killings in Shreveport, and Burks’s death has long been linked to that pattern. While Code was convicted for several other murders, no charges were ever filed in the death of Wes Burks. The official file for Burks’s murder remains open with no arrest, trial, or conviction recorded.

The unresolved status of the case — a strong investigative link to a convicted killer but no legal closure for this victim — is the central issue left for the family and the community. Does anyone have information about Burks, his last known movements, or contacts in Shreveport in June 1985?