On June 8, 2012, Dexter Burkhalter and Russell Atkins were found dead at Atkins’ residence in Monroe, Louisiana. Both men had been stabbed and then shot in the head; cocaine and pills were reported scattered on the floor near the victims and bloody shoe prints led from inside the house to the porch.

Investigators focused on two men, Demetric Whitlock and Rico Collins, after DNA, cell phone records, and the shoe-print evidence tied them to the scene. Both were arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder on October 17, 2012, and a grand jury indicted them on October 25, 2012. Collins gave investigators two statements, saying he was at the house with Whitlock to fill out oil field job applications, accusing Whitlock of the killings while admitting he helped move the bodies; later, while preparing for trial, Collins reportedly told authorities he had stabbed one of the victims but continued to say Whitlock stabbed both victims and shot them.

Whitlock was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and, as a fourth-felony offender, received two consecutive life sentences. Does anyone have information about connections between the victims and the suspects or about activity in that Monroe neighborhood around June 2012?