AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking information on the 2019 murder of 37-year-old Courtney Allan Sholar. The reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for his death is now increased to $6,000 if the tip is received before the next featured Texas Rangers cold case is announced. Anyone with information in this case is asked to please come forward.
On May 16, 2024, Courtney Allan Sholar’s body was found in a rural Eastland Co., nearly five years after he went missing. Sholar, who was affectionately nicknamed “Opie,” was last seen driving a Dodge Ram pickup in Ranger, Texas, after returning from a trip on June 29, 2019. He had been in the process of moving from the Ranger area to Oklahoma and was traveling back to Texas at the time of his disappearance. Sholar had ties to the oil industry in Eastland Co., holding a variety of oil field jobs before his death.
