On December 4, 1997, eight-year-old Bryant Edward Daniels was one of four members of the Daniels family killed in their one-story brick home in Santa Claus, Georgia, during a violent home invasion. The intruder entered while the family slept and used a shotgun taken from the family’s gun cabinet. Bryant was shot in his bedroom; his parents, Danny and Kim Daniels, were shot in the master bedroom; their daughter Jessica was shot in the back of the head in her parents’ bedroom.

After the killings, the attacker kidnapped three other children from the house — two Daniels daughters and a foster child — who were later found alive on the side of a road in a neighboring county. Two additional foster children, aged about 10 months and 4 years, were discovered unharmed inside the home.

Authorities identified 20-year-old Jerry Scott Heidler as the suspect and arrested him about seven hours after the bodies were found. Heidler was charged with four counts of malice murder, kidnapping, and burglary; a jury convicted him on all counts. On September 4, 1999, Heidler was sentenced to death and is held on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison.

Did anyone in the area know the Daniels family or have information about contacts Heidler had with them before December 4, 1997?