Four-year-old Ashley Ann Barron was found dead in her bed in Sacramento on August 7, 1994. Her father, Jack Barron, had left for work the evening before and a babysitter checked on Ashley around midnight, noting she seemed to be sleeping; the child was discovered deceased the next morning. The initial autopsy did not produce a definitive cause of death, and suffocation could not be ruled out.

Ashley was the third member of the Barron household to die under unexplained circumstances in about two years. Her mother, Irene Barron, was found dead on June 8, 1992, with a pillow covering her face; her older brother Jeremy was found unresponsive in bed on February 7, 1993. Those successive deaths prompted investigators to focus on Jack Barron.

On July 17, 1995, Jack Barron was arrested and charged in the deaths of Irene, Jeremy and Ashley. At trial he was convicted of murdering Irene, Jeremy and his mother Roberta Butler but acquitted of Ashley’s murder; Ashley’s exact cause of death remained undetermined. Does anyone have additional information about Ashley’s final hours or the babysitter’s account?