On October 1, 1989, Judith Lynn Judy Robirds, 34, was found murdered in her Lutie Court home in Nashville. Her two sons, Chad Burnett, 16, and Jason Burnett, 13, were also killed; all three had been shot and stabbed and their bodies were discovered the next day. The attack followed a period of separation between Judy and her husband, Oscar Franklin Smith, and Judy had filed assault charges against him prior to the killings.

Investigators presented a 911 recording made at the Robirds residence shortly before the murders in which the boys’ voices can be heard pleading for help and one calls out Frank, no. Testimony at the 1990 trial included coworkers who said Smith had threatened to kill Judy and descriptions of an earlier incident in which he allegedly tied Judy up, assaulted her, and threatened her with a knife. A bloody palm print found at the scene was reported to be missing the same two fingers as Smith.

Oscar Franklin Smith was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder; a Davidson County jury convicted him of premeditated murder and sentenced him to death. Does anyone have additional information about the Robirds family or that Lutie Court neighbourhood in 1989?