“The only thing he had on was a pair of socks,” Mr. Weaver said. “And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.”

“And they even had duct tape around his neck. And they had like his identification tag on his neck. They had it duct-taped to the side of his neck, on the right side, almost on his right shoulder.”…

The scene left Mr. Weaver without a doubt over how Mr. Sparkman died.

“He was murdered,” he said. “There’s no doubt.”