Three Men Arrested And Charged For 30-Year-Old Cold-Case Murder

Three men have been charged across two states in connection with the killing of Bernard Hopkins, which happened some thirty years ago.

The arrests were made after one family has waited three decades for answers.

At the time of his death, Hopkins was 32 years old. A single gunshot to the head ended his life. The bullet came through a living room window and struck Hopkins as he was sleeping on the couch.

The hole through his trailer window is the only sign that something was amiss in the crime scene.

On March 20th, the three men were indicted and charged with the Gallatin murder. They were Shawn Satchwell, 49, Curtis Sharon, 53, and Ricky Asher, 46.

Satchwell was arrested in neighboring Boone County, while Sharon was detained in Switzerland County. Asher is currently being held in Leslie County.

Sharon is being charged with complicity to murder and solicitation to kill. He was lodged at the Switzerland County Detention Center in Vevay, Indiana.

Asher has been given the charge of tampering with physical evidence and criminal facilitation to murder. He was lodged at the Leslie County Detention Center.

Satchwell has been charged with murder and has been placed at the Boone County Detention Center.

At the time of Hopkin's murder, there was no evidence left at the scene except the hole in the trailer window. The family was devastated by the news, and detectives were dumfounded. No one knew why and who killed him.

It was evident his killers left a clean scene. What they did not account for, though, was the footprint in the mud in the foggy March night that he was killed.

Norma Bladen, his sister, found her brother in his home the night he died. She returned to the scene later to recount the events leading to her discovery of his body on the couch.

She stated it was difficult knowing that the couch was the last place she saw him, and she would like to have one more day with him.

Bladen mentioned Hopkins was well known in the community, and most people loved him. The night of his death, though, she claimed he called to give her a weird message.

Apparently, he had gotten a call claiming there was something bad that was going to happen, like a death in the family.

The case was widely covered by the 'Unsolved' team a year before the authorities finally made the arrests.