MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. — The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office is renewing its call for the public’s help in identifying a homicide victim long known only as the “Sleeping Bag Man.'”
Investigators with the agency’s Special Investigations Unit say they have developed a promising lead on the man’s identity but need additional information from the community to confirm it.
Detectives believe the victim may have gone by the name Joseph or James Kane, though they suspect his true last name began with a “P.”
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According to witness accounts gathered over the years, he may have worked at a paint shop in the 3400 block of Maricopa between 1992 and 1994, where he painted jet skis.
Investigators also learned he may have later worked in real estate, and at one point was briefly engaged to a woman named Brandi. He possibly lived at the Kimberly Apartments and, around the time of his death, was believed to be living on a boat.
The victim was found shot multiple times, wrapped in a sleeping bag, and left along the shoreline of a secluded cove on the south end of Lake Havasu in 2000. He was wearing a Hot Boat Magazine T‑shirt when his body was discovered.
Detectives are urging anyone who recognizes these details, or who may have known a man matching this description in the early 1990s, to contact SIU investigators at 928-753-0753, extensions 4408 or 4328, and reference DR# 00‑026283.
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