A rural home in Dixie Inn, Louisiana, was the scene of a double homicide over the Christmas period in the winter of 1982. Erlene Nealy Brown, 51, and her husband Newton Brown were bound and gagged, robbed and each shot once in the head after two inmates, Jimmy Glass and Jimmy Wingo, escaped from the nearby Webster Parish Jail and forced their way into the couple’s residence. The intruders took money, firearms and clothing before leaving in the Browns’ automobile.

Both escapees were later arrested, charged with first-degree murder, tried and convicted of capital murder. The two men were sentenced to death; one of the defendants appealed his electrocution sentence to the U.S. Supreme Court but the appeal was rejected. The case closed with the executions of both men in June 1987.

Did anyone in the Dixie Inn area remember the escape or sightings of the Browns’ car around Christmas 1982?