On December 30, 1987, 72-year-old Willie Myrt Lowe was found shot to death in her Miller Grove Road home in Atlanta. Her 15-year-old grandson, Tony Kilgore, was also found in the house, shot in the head at close range. The scene prompted a homicide investigation that quickly focused on another grandson, Eric Lynn Ferrell, who had spent the previous night at his grandmother’s home and was on probation at the time.

DeKalb County police say they found $676 in cash and four spent .22-caliber rounds in Ferrell’s pockets, and later recovered a .22-caliber revolver from his home that investigators identified as the murder weapon. Ferrell was arrested, tried, and in September 1988 a jury found him guilty of the double homicide and armed robbery; he was sentenced to death.

Those who knew the family or were in the neighborhood in December 1987 may have information that could shed light on what happened that night; anyone with information is asked to come forward.