Victim was suffocated, stabbed on New Year’s in Columbus. This 1985 case still unsolved

Editor’s note: Details of this story are graphic, and may be difficult for some to read. On New Year’s Day 1985, an 18-year-old man was found suffocated, stabbed, and tied up with clothing inside a motel on Victory Drive. Now, nearly 40 years later, the case is one on the list of more than 100 unsolved homicides in the Columbus area spanning several decades, and one of three from 1985. Anthony Bernard Dixon was born in Columbus on July 8, 1966, was a member of New Mount Zion Baptist Church,...