In Athens, Georgia, retired University of Georgia professors Glenn and Rachel Sutton were found murdered in their Oglethorpe Avenue home on April 25, 1987. Their son, alarmed after being unable to reach them for several days, called police. Officers discovered both bodies wrapped together in a carpet; both had been stabbed multiple times. The killings left the academic community shaken and the case went cold for several months.

In August 1987 a separate triple homicide in the Carr’s Hill neighborhood — victims Ann Orr Morris, her sister Sally Nathanson, and Sally’s daughter Helen Nathanson — showed a similarly savage modus operandi. Investigation of that crime led police to 16-year-old Clinton Bankston Jr., who was found with a car belonging to one of the Carr’s Hill victims. He confessed to the triple homicide and to killing Glenn and Rachel Sutton, at first inventing an accomplice named Chris but later acknowledged acting alone. Bankston, who was 15 at the time of the Sutton killings, pleaded guilty but mentally ill on his 17th birthday in May 1988 to five counts of malice murder and received five consecutive life sentences.

Did anyone in Athens at the time have memories or information about the Suttons, the Carr’s Hill victims, or suspicious persons seen near either home in spring 1987?