On a Sunday evening in April 1997, the Lillelid family was attacked after stopping at a rest area in Greene County, Tennessee while returning from a Jehovah’s Witnesses convention. Delfina Lillelid, 28, her husband Vidar, 34, and their children Tabitha, 6, and Peter, 2, were forced at gunpoint into their van by a group of six youths from Kentucky who were traveling to New Orleans. The assailants drove the family to a secluded rural road, ordered them out, and shot them. Delfina was shot eight times and Vidar six times; Tabitha later died at a hospital.

Peter survived despite being shot twice and was left with permanent disabilities.All six suspects — Natasha Cornett, 18; Edward Dean Mullins, 19; Joseph Lance Risner, 20; Crystal Rena Sturgill, 18; Karen R. Howell, 17; and Jason Blake Bryant, 14 — were arrested two days later in Arizona while attempting to cross into Mexico. They were returned to Tennessee and in March 1998 pleaded guilty to felony murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping.

Each received three life sentences without parole for the murders and an additional 25 years for the attempted murder of Peter Lillelid.Does anyone have memories of the rest-stop area or the family from that time who can add details about what happened that night?