On the night of August 15, 1987, three women were killed inside a home in the Carr’s Hill neighborhood of Athens, Georgia. Victims were 59-year-old Sally Nicholson, her sister Ann Morris, 63, and Sally’s 22-year-old daughter Helen. Investigators reported the women had been hacked to death with what was believed to be a hatchet; the weapon was recovered at the scene and the victims’ identities were confirmed by post-mortem examinations because of the severity of their injuries.

A patrol officer located a stolen car belonging to one of the victims parked outside the residence of Clinton Bankston, who was arrested and charged with three counts of murder. Bankston was later charged in the April deaths of Glenn and Rachel Sutton. He confessed, named an alleged accomplice called Chris, but investigators could find no evidence that Chris existed.

On May 12, 1988, Bankston, then 17, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to five counts of first-degree murder and received five consecutive life terms. Does anyone have information about Sally Nicholson or memories of the Carr’s Hill neighborhood in 1987 that could shed more light on the victims or the case?