On August 5, 1987, 73-year-old William T. Code was found in his Shreveport, Louisiana home after a brutal attack. He had been beaten and stabbed thirteen times, and his body was discovered bound with an electrical cord and gagged. Two children in the house, 12-year-old Joe Robinson Jr. and 8-year-old Eric Williams, were also found bound, gagged, and strangled to death; they were grandsons of a friend.

Investigators focused on a suspect who was a family member. William Code’s grandson, Nathaniel Robert Code Jr., was placed at the scene by witness accounts and arrested the day after the bodies were discovered. He was already a convicted felon. DNA evidence tied Nathaniel Code Jr. to this attack and to other murders in the Shreveport area, and he came to be known as the Cedar Grove Killer. He was later tried and convicted for a separate quadruple homicide and sentenced to death.