On September 25, 1987, 21-year-old Vicki McCarty and her mother Mary were found bludgeoned to death in their Radford Drive home in Indianapolis. A family member who could not reach them by phone discovered the scene through a window. Investigators recovered a hammer at the house and concluded both women had been viciously attacked; evidence indicated Mary may have been assaulted in her sleep while Vicki likely confronted the attacker in a hallway. There were no signs of forced entry and valuables, including money in their purses, were left untouched.

The family’s 1987 Chevy Cavalier was missing from the driveway and has never been located; the family poodle remained at the home. Attention focused on Vicki’s on-again, off-again boyfriend after witnesses said he reacted angrily when a marriage proposal was rejected the day before and was last seen in Panama City, Florida, on the day the bodies were found. No one has ever been charged and the murders remain unsolved.

Does anyone have memories or information about the Radford Drive neighborhood, the missing Chevy Cavalier, or the people involved?