On the night of August 15, 1987, three women were murdered in a Carr’s Hill home in Athens, Georgia. Victims were 22-year-old Helen Nicholson, her 59-year-old mother Sally Nicholson, and her 63-year-old aunt Ann Morris. Investigators recovered a hatchet at the scene and said the women had been hacked to death; the violence was so severe the victims were identified only by post-mortem examination.

A patrol officer found a car stolen from one of the victims outside a residence the next day, which led to 16-year-old Clinton Bankston, who lived there with his half-brother. Bankston was arrested and charged with three counts of murder, and the investigation soon linked him to the April killings of Glenn and Rachel Sutton. He confessed but named an accomplice he called Chris; investigators later found no evidence that Chris existed.

On May 12, 1988, Bankston pleaded guilty but mentally ill to five counts of first-degree murder and received five consecutive life terms because state law barred execution for offenders who were 16 at the time. Does anyone have information about the Carr’s Hill neighborhood in 1987 or memories that could shed further light on these events?