Memorial walk honors slain man

David Moreau

A memorial walk commemorating the life of a man whose murder remains unsolved is planned for Sunday.

Family and friends have organized a walk in honor of David Moreau to begin sometime between 6:30-7:00 p.m at old Sarge's Bar and finish at Missouri Avenue, where his body was found in 2004.

Moreau, 53, was found dead in the early morning hours of July 18, 2004, on the lawn outside his mother's home.

Red Willow County Attorney Paul Wood ruled the death a homicide, citing blunt force trauma to the head as cause of death.

The walk is being org-anized by family and friends as a way to draw attention to his death that remains unsolved and as a way to remember Moreau's life, said his sister Cathy Blanton

"We get the same thing every time we call, no new leads," Blanton said about her repeated inquiries into her brother's death. "We haven't had any closure about this."

Blanton recalled the last time she saw her brother, when he told her and their mother that he was going to a bar to try and win a money jar.They had jokingly told him that if he won, they wanted to borrow money from him. "We were just laughing and joking around," she said.

Although Moreau's size made him look intimidating, she said, he was just a "big old teddy bear."

"He would give his shirt off his back to anyone who needed it," she said.

Anyone who knew Moreau is welcomed to join the walk, she said, as a way to remember his life and and untimely death. The walk is scheduled to begin sometime between 6:30 and 7 p.m.

"He didn't deserve to die this way," she said.