Honora A. Lahmann, 67, and her sister Zita Blum, 66, were found shot to death in their Joliet Township home on June 25, 1983. Their bodies were subsequently burned inside the house. The two women’s killings were the first in a series of murders in the Joliet area that summer.

Milton Johnson became the prime suspect in the murders of Honora Lahmann and Zita Blum. Reports tie Johnson’s pattern to these crimes: victims shot and then set on fire. He was later arrested and convicted for several murders that were part of that same spree.

Does anyone have memories of the neighborhood or knew the Lahmann or Blum families that could add details about their lives or the events leading up to June 25, 1983?