On May 6, 1991, 44-year-old Shirley Douglas and her 79-year-old aunt Hattie Wilson were found strangled to death in Wilson’s apartment in Fort Worth, Texas. The double killing shocked the family and community and remained unsolved for many years with no immediate suspects identified.

In 2008 DNA recovered from the crime scene was matched to Reginald W. Perkins, a 53-year-old man with a prior record for sexual offenses and violent crimes. Perkins had been on parole from an Ohio prison at the time of the 1991 killings and had moved to Fort Worth; he was reportedly dating Wilson’s granddaughter, which reportedly gave him access to the apartment. Perkins was already convicted and on death row for the 2000 murder of his stepmother, Gertie Mae Perkins.

Perkins denied involvement in the 1991 murders. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on January 22, 2009, for the 2000 killing. No formal charges for the 1991 deaths were announced in the material provided. Did anyone in Fort Worth at the time remember Perkins visiting the family or seeing him near Wilson’s apartment?