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According to him, his former cellmate had issued a $15,000 contract for Raymond Barrows' shooting in 1980 because Raymond had allegedly stolen 55 kilos of cocaine from him.

Frankos said that another man had taken the job and gone through with the actual hit.

Unfortunately, though, the Manatee County investigator never found any evidence to support Frankos' claims.

And the two men who he said were involved were never formally interviewed about the Holmes Beach case, despite the fact that authorities had their names and information and they were sentenced to serve time in prison for unrelated offenses.

Eventually, the 20-year anniversary passed and then the 30th, and during that time, Donald Frankos died in prison, Raymond's widow Dora died, several former investigators died or fell into poor health, and authorities were still basically at square one.

In 2010, Bradenton Herald reporter Beth Berger wrote a long piece for the 30th anniversary, which recapped everything that had previously been covered in the case, as well as a bunch of new details that authorities had never shared before.

For example, investigators revealed that a man driving by the original crime scene in August 1980 had snapped several pictures of the Dumois' crashed station wagon.

Those images showed the suspected killer walking away from the crime scene.

But the camera settings for autofocus weren't set properly, so the images ended up being too blurry to make out who the suspect was.

I know, talk about being the luckiest killer in the world.

In 2019, a home speech police detective shared even more inside information about the case when he permitted a reporter for the Anna Maria Islander inside the department's evidence room.

He showed the reporter old crime scene photos and bags of evidence, including a preserved .22 caliber bullet that investigators back in 1980 had found at Robert Matsky's crime scene.

In 2022, a podcast called Down and Away chronicled the case in a seven-part series.

And in 2025, a local author published a book about the crime.

But to this day, no one knows who committed the murders.

And maybe just as important, why?

The answer to that question may never be found.

Raymond's daughter Annie told me that her cousin Juan went on to become a pediatrician and still helps families in the Tampa Bay area.

In more recent years, Maria Dumois relocated to live with her daughter Anna, and periodically they still take trips to Florida to spend time together.

As of this recording, the Kingfish boat ramp murders are still unsolved.