His body was found naked and mutilated. Decades later, silence and fear cling to the murder of Missouri man.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The body was found naked and decomposing. The hands and feet were severed and missing. The teeth and lower jaw had been removed.

In April 1989, Ronnie Allen Johnson, 26, was discovered mutilated in the Mark Twain National Forest, not far from West Plains, Missouri. He had been shot in the head.

Thirty-two years later the grisly murder remains a mystery.

No one has been brought to justice; no one has been charged.

Following the dark code of the Ozarks, no one has talked.

Fear lingers over the case like a morning fog over the deepest Ozarks hollow.