SULLIVAN COUNTY, Ind – Sunday (12/8/19) Sunday marked the seven-year anniversary of the unsolved homicide of 85-year-old Lowell R. Badger of rural Sullivan County. The retired farmer was found dead in rural Sullivan County home. The homicide is believed to have occurred sometime between Friday, December 7th, 8:00 p.m. and 9:23 a.m. on Saturday, December 8th, 2012.

Since Mr. Badger’s death in 2012, Indiana State Police and the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office have investigated more than 150 tips, conducted nearly 100 interviews, and combed many areas of land and water in the Sullivan County area and have still not been able to make an arrest.

Police still believe someone in the community has information related to this case and are urging them to come forward and provide the information needed to make an arrest.

Anyone with information is strongly urged to call Indiana State Police Detective Mike Taylor or First Sergeant Jason Fajt at the Putnamville Post (765)-653-4114 or Sullivan County Sheriff Clark Cottom or Chief Deputy Jason Bobbitt at the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office (812)-268-4308.

Police say that all tips will be investigated, and tipsters can remain anonymous.

There is a reward of approximately $30,000 for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for Lowell’s death.

A safe and television were taken from Lowell’s home. The safe was a light to medium dark gray, measuring 23 ½” tall, 17” in depth, and 17” wide, in pristine condition and manufactured by John D. Brush and Company. The television was a black 46” Sony Bravia LCD screen.

Police have provided a picture of a similar safe but say that the one stolen from the Badger home was in pristine condition.