WSFA 12 news has learned the case involving Mont Highley the fourth came up during the Montgomery County grand jury last week, and more than one witness appeared before the grand jury... Encouraging news considering it started out as what the family calls a complicated case; the younger Highley missing for 6 weeks. That meant investigators didn't treat it as a homicide until after his body was found in a grain silo, and that's when detectives started collecting whatever evidence was left...
Highley can't help but wonder why: a house close to where the body was found mysteriously burned; Highley the fourth was found with his 6-hundred dollar watch on, 3-hundred dollars in cash in his wallet and the Tahoe he drove on the family farm still had a full tank of gas...
It's not clear why the case appeared before the Montgomery County grand jury since Highley's body was found in Macon County.
Kitchens says the donation comes as he remembers a friend, Mont Highley IV, who was murdered in 2003. That murder remains unsolved to this day.