On the morning of December 4, 1997, the Daniels family home in Santa Claus, Georgia, was the scene of a brutal multiple homicide. Sixteen-year-old Jessica Noel Daniels was awakened by the disturbance, ran toward her parents’ bedroom, and was shot in the back of the head.

After killing the four family members, Heidler allegedly kidnapped three other girls from the home, later abandoning them on a roadside in another county; one of the girls was sexually assaulted. The three unharmed girls led authorities back to the Daniels residence. Heidler, who was known to the family, was arrested within hours at a relative’s house and later confessed. A jury in September 1999 convicted him on 11 counts, including four counts of malice murder, and imposed death sentences for each of the four murders.

Does anyone have additional firsthand information about the Daniels family or the girls who were abducted that could help preserve the details of this case?