On July 11, 2022, 73-year-old Virginia Carter Thomas and her 75-year-old partner, Charles Barnett, were found shot to death in their bed in their home on South Lakeview Drive in Waycross, Georgia. A relative discovered the couple that morning and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted the Ware County Sheriff’s Office in the death investigation.

Within days the investigation produced arrests close to the victims’ household. Virginia’s son, 55-year-old Bernard Rittenhouse, and his wife, 53-year-old Janet Rittenhouse, who had reportedly lived with Virginia and Charles on and off, were taken into custody and booked into the Ware County Jail. Bernard was charged with two counts of felony murder and one count of burglary; Janet was charged with two counts of felony murder and one count of party to the crime of burglary. Investigators say Bernard reported finding his mother and her partner and called 911, but authorities say evidence pointed to the couple being responsible for the killings.

Does anyone have information about the household or the Rittenhouse family that could shed light on what happened?