Willard Ron Hess, 70, and his wife Dorothy E. Hess, 72, were found dead in their Winder, Georgia, home on the morning of May 21, 2019, after a grandson who had not heard from them for several days called 911. Investigators from the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined both had been shot to death; their deaths were ruled a double homicide. The Southridge Road home did not appear ransacked, making robbery an unlikely motive early on.

Law enforcement processed the couple’s residence and the grandson’s home across the street, and detectives asked about a dark-colored sedan seen parked in front of the Hess residence at least twice in the week before the bodies were found. Months passed with few public developments and no arrests. In September 2020 the FBI linked the case to Operation Disruptor after the Hesses’ identities were sold online; a man named Durrell Tyler was later indicted in a federal fraud case for allegedly buying stolen data that included the Hesses’ information, though authorities said they did not believe he was directly involved in the killings. The murders remain unsolved.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see that dark-colored sedan or notice anything unusual in the days before May 21, 2019?