On Christmas morning 1982, Newton Newt Brown, 55, and his wife Erlene were found fatally shot in their home in Dixie Inn, Louisiana by their children. The killings came a day after two inmates escaped from the nearby Webster Parish Jail, and investigators focused on the escapees, Jimmy Wingo and Jimmy L. Glass, believing the men had targeted the Brown residence during a burglary connected to their escape.

Wingo and Glass were captured and charged with the murders of Newton and Erlene Brown. Both defendants were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death following trial. The legal appeals that followed proceeded through the courts in the years after the convictions.

Does anyone have memories of the Dixie Inn community in 1982 or information about the Browns that could shed light on what happened that Christmas?