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On Christmas Eve, the corpse of a black male was found burning near Baltimore. He was eventually identified as twenty-six year-old Wesley Person. Distinctive building materials from the 1930s found near the body played a critical role in solving this puzzling case. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 30.

A body is found burning off a highway on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. It's a murder victim with three gunshot wounds to his head whose hands and feet are bound by duct tape. A forensic analysis of the skull enables investigators to create a composite sketch of the victim; the sketch and the victim's partial fingerprints enable them to identify him: Wesley Person. Police know getting rid of the body was a two-person job and that the "dump scene" is not the murder scene. Reconstructing the victim's last known movements, they discover he was involved in a bank scam involving car loans with two friends, Justin Glover and Lawrence Murrell. Evidence found with the body, specifically animal-hair plaster, leads them to the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, murder scene, and Glover and Murrell are ultimately convicted of Person's murder. There had been a falling-out among thieves.