In the early morning hours of July 12, 1987, three members of a Milledgeville, Georgia household were shot to death at 115 McKinley Street. Dorothy Hightower, 41, and her daughters Sandra Reaves, 22, and Evelyn Reaves, 19, were found by Dorothy’s brother Curtis Reaves around 3:00 a.m. Curtis discovered Dorothy and one niece deceased; Evelyn was alive but critically wounded and died two days later. A 3-year-old niece in the home was physically unharmed.

Suspicion centered on Dorothy’s husband, John Washington Hightower. Dorothy’s car was missing from the residence and was located about 90 minutes after the discovery; Hightower was arrested driving the vehicle. Investigators recovered a handgun in the car covered in flesh and blood, and Hightower’s clothing was bloodstained. During questioning he confessed, saying he had been drinking and using cocaine, hid a gun in the bedroom they shared, waited for the household to sleep, then retrieved the weapon and shot his wife and stepdaughters in the head.

Hightower was charged with three counts of murder and later convicted. Does anyone have additional details about the family or the neighborhood in Milledgeville at that time?