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On January 24, 1990, 39-year-old Charles H. Forester Jr., known as Chucky, was shot and killed in Knoxville, Tennessee. Investigators concluded his death was not random: his mother, Dorothea Sweeten, was identified as the person who shot him. The same day she also killed her husband, Tom Sweeten.

Dorothea Sweeten told police she acted out of a misguided sense of love and fear for her son’s future, saying she believed his intellectual disability meant no one else could care for him. She was charged with both murders, but she died before facing trial, leaving the case without a legal resolution.

Are there anyone who remembers the Sweeten family or has information about the circumstances leading up to that day?