On the morning of July 19, 1985, a relative found four people dead inside a home on East 72nd Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. Victims were 25-year-old Jerry Culbert, his sister Vivian Chaney, 34, Vivian’s 15-year-old daughter Carlitha Culbert, and Vivian’s boyfriend Billy Joe Harris, 28. The scene showed extreme brutality; Jerry Culbert had been shot once in the head as he slept in his bed and the other victims were found in different parts of the house, also having suffered violent injuries.

Investigators linked the killings to Nathaniel Code. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, convicted by a jury on all counts, and sentenced to death. The case is remembered as a particularly brutal multiple homicide that shocked the Shreveport community.