On June 3, 1983, in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, 55-year-old retired military veteran J. C. Sawyer and his wife Mary Eunice Sawyer were forced from their home by a 19-year-old man, Nicholas Lee Ingram. The intruder arrived with a .38 caliber revolver, initially asked to use the couple’s telephone, then demanded money and the keys to their 1972 Chevrolet pickup. After taking $60, he marched the couple into nearby woods, bound their hands, tied them to a tree and shot both in the head at point-blank range. J. C. Sawyer died at the scene; Mary Sawyer survived after the bullet grazed her head and she played dead until the attacker left in the truck, then freed herself and got help from a neighbor.

A statewide manhunt followed for the suspect and the stolen pickup. The case resulted in the suspect’s later capture and confession, and a conviction for the murder of J. C. Sawyer. Are there readers who remember the Sawyers, the 1972 Chevrolet pickup, or the manhunt in 1983 and can add details?