Jerry Mac Brown, 51, an interior designer from Sherman, Texas, was one of four men shot to death on October 8, 1983, in a metal building used as a hangar for ultralight airplanes on a ranch near Sherman. The other victims were Bob Tate, 51, a building contractor and ranch owner; Philip Good, 29, a Grayson County Sheriff’s deputy; and Ronald Mayes, 37, a former Sherman police officer.

The men had gathered to meet an unknown individual about the sale of an ultralight aircraft. When their bodies were discovered they had been shot multiple times and were found stuffed under carpet remnants in the hangar. A .22-caliber weapon was used, but investigators were unable to determine how many weapons or killers were involved. An ultralight aircraft disappeared from the hangar on the day of the killings, a lead authorities followed, though they doubted theft alone explained the motive.

The case remained complex and long unsolved and left many unanswered questions about motive and whether others were involved. Did anyone have information about who met the men that day or about the missing ultralight aircraft?