Forty-one-year-old Thomas Sherwood worked at North Wind Environmental in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and lived with his wife Stephanie in Pocatello.
On September 3rd, 2000, emergency services were summoned to the couple’s home on N. Parks Road, where they found Thomas dead in the basement, evidently a victim of suicide. Stephanie had found the body and alerted the authorities.
Almost immediately, though, investigators were skeptical. It was determined, in fact, that Thomas had died from two shotgun wounds, an unlikely outcome if he had taken his own life. Law enforcement began to suspect that the scene had been staged and initiated a homicide inquiry.
In 2008, Bannock County Sheriff’s detective Andy Thomas, who had worked on the case from the beginning, went on record as saying that Thomas Sherwood’s wife Stephanie and her brother were persons of interest in the case and that he had been keeping an eye on them for years. The problem, he lamented, was lack of evidence to convict.
Twenty-five years later, the crime is still unsolved, and whether Thomas Sherwood’s wife and brother-in-law were indeed responsible for his murder remains an open question.
Crime Immemorial 