On November 8, 2004, five members of the Resendez household were found murdered in their rural home near Moultrie, Georgia. Victims included 3-year-old Juan Carlos Resendez; his parents, Jaime Cruz Resendez, 25, and Katrina Tina Resendez, 29; his maternal grandmother, Betty Faye Watts, 50; and the family’s housekeeper, Liliana Alegria Aguilar, 30. The older children, then ages 7 and 8, discovered the bodies after returning from school. Juan Carlos was later found hidden between a mattress and headboard; his mother and the housekeeper had been bound.

Authorities linked the killings to retaliation after Jaime and Katrina had cooperated with law enforcement following a major marijuana arrest the prior year. Investigations led to arrests of several people in connection with the slayings. One person implicated, Anthony Davis, was found shot to death in a different county in January 2005 before facing trial. Court testimony later described that those sent to the house were seeking to collect a drug debt and that Juan Carlos was shot after looking at one of the assailants.

Does anyone have information about the family, the neighborhood, or movements around the Resendez home that day?