Natasha McClendon was a 2-year-old African American girl killed on October 7, 1974, in Fort Worth, Texas. She died during a brutal attack in which her mother, two aunts, and a 3-year-old cousin were also killed. The victims were tied, gagged, and stabbed with a butcher knife in their apartment.

Kenneth Granviel, a family acquaintance, later confessed to Natasha’s killing as part of a crime spree that included rape and murder over several months. Granviel surrendered on February 8, 1975, after holding several people hostage and committing additional crimes, and was tried and convicted for the murders. His first conviction for Natasha’s murder was overturned on procedural grounds; after a retrial he was found guilty again in 1983 and spent over two decades on death row before being executed by lethal injection in 1996.

Does anyone have memories of the family or the neighborhood from that time who can add context about Natasha or the other victims?