On November 4, 1989, Julie Grissom, 24, was among three people murdered inside her father William Tom Grissom’s home in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her father and her eight-year-old nephew Sean were also killed; the bodies were discovered on November 6, 1989. The scene was described as brutal and prompted intense early scrutiny of people close to Julie.

A Shreveport attorney, Hal Carter, who had recently ended a romantic relationship with Julie, was an early suspect but was never arrested; investigators later verified he was in Atlanta during the killings. Attention later shifted to Danny Rolling, a former Shreveport resident later convicted in the 1990 Gainesville murders. Multiple accounts attribute written or verbal admissions to Rolling, including a handwritten statement delivered through a spiritual adviser before his 2006 execution and a 1997 confession reportedly turned over to police by a woman he married in prison. Rolling’s written statement declared Carter 100% innocent.

No Louisiana prosecution or conviction for the Grissom killings is described in these accounts. Did anyone in Shreveport at the time notice anything unusual around the Grissom home in early November 1989 or have information about visitors that night?