On the night of November 29, 1992, 39-year-old Sara Tokars returned to her Marietta, Georgia, home with her two young sons, six-year-old Ricky and four-year-old Mike, after a Thanksgiving visit to family in Florida. While they were unloading the car in the garage, a man with a sawed-off shotgun forced the family back into the vehicle, made Sara drive away, then shot her in the back of the head, killing her in front of her children. Ricky, covered in his mother’s blood, turned off the ignition and led his brother to a nearby house for help.

Investigators uncovered a murder-for-hire scheme that implicated Sara’s husband, Fredric Fred Tokars, a prominent Atlanta attorney and former prosecutor. Prosecutors say Sara had learned her husband was laundering money for drug dealers and planned to divorce him; fearing exposure, Tokars allegedly enlisted a business associate, Eddie Lawrence, who recruited 22-year-old Curtis Rower for $5,000 to kill her. Rower was arrested after boasting and hiding under a bed; Lawrence later agreed to cooperate and testified against Rower and Tokars. Rower ultimately pleaded guilty and received life without parole; Lawrence was sentenced to 12½ years.

Did anyone in the Marietta area know Sara or her boys and have recollections from that Thanksgiving week that might shed more light on what led up to this crime?