On July 19, 1985, a Shreveport home was the scene of a devastating attack that left four people dead. Vivian Chaney, 34, was found in the bathroom bound with a telephone cord, beaten, and having died from strangulation and drowning. Her 15-year-old daughter, Carlitha Culbert, was also murdered; Chaney’s dress was stained with Carlitha’s blood, suggesting she was forced to watch her child’s killing before her own.

Also killed in the house were Chaney’s boyfriend, 29-year-old Billy Joe Harris, who had been shot multiple times and had his throat cut, and Chaney’s brother Jerry Culbert, who was shot as he slept. Two younger daughters, ages seven and ten, were found unharmed in their bed.

Investigators later identified Nathaniel Robert Code, Jr. as the suspect. A Caddo Parish grand jury indicted him on five counts of first-degree murder, including the four from this crime and an earlier killing from 1984. Palm prints at the scene matched Code, and an acquaintance testified seeing him with blood on his arms the night of the murders. A jury found Code guilty of the first-degree murders and recommended the death sentence, which the judge imposed.

If anyone knew the victims, the household, or saw anything in Shreveport around July 19, 1985 that might shed further light, please share what can help the record.