On the morning of July 19, 1985, a relative arriving for a surprise visit to a Shreveport, Louisiana home discovered four people murdered, including 15-year-old Carlitha Culbert. Carlitha was found in the living room with her hands bound behind her back with an electrical cord and her throat cut; investigators concluded the throat wound was not the immediate cause of death and that she had been held as leverage against her mother, Vivian Chaney, before the killer returned and killed her.

The other victims were Carlitha’s brother, 25-year-old Jerry Culbert, shot in his sleep; 34-year-old Vivian Chaney, who was strangled and drowned after being taken to another room; and Billy Joe Harris. Palm prints recovered at the scene later linked Nathaniel Robert Code Jr. to the killings. In 1990 Code was tried, found guilty of the four murders from July 19, 1985, and the jury recommended the death penalty.

If anyone knew the victims or has information about the events leading up to that day in Shreveport, please share what you remember.