On the evening of May 30, 1993, 19-year-old Jason Hampton and his 18-year-old fiancée Charlye Merinda Dixon were shot while parked at a lakeside lovers’ lane in Ware County, Georgia. A man identified as Billy Daniel Raulerson approached their pickup, stood on the truck bed and opened fire, fatally wounding Jason. Charlye was shot as she tried to flee; she was then abducted, taken miles away to a wooded area, shot again and sexually violated. Jason’s and Charlye’s bodies, along with the body of another victim, Gail Taylor, were found on May 31, 1993, in separate locations.

Investigators later linked Raulerson to the killings after he gave a blood sample during an unrelated aggravated assault and weapons investigation; DNA from that sample matched evidence from Charlye Dixon’s body. Raulerson subsequently confessed. Police recovered a fishing rod and reel stolen from Jason’s truck and parts of a .22 caliber rifle at Raulerson’s home; ballistics linked shell casings from the scenes to the rifle parts. Raulerson was convicted and given three death sentences.

Did anyone in Ware County or the surrounding area know Jason or Charlye and have details about where they spent time that evening?