William Tom Grissom was 55 when he and two others in his Southern Hills home in Shreveport were killed on November 4, 1989. The house was found on Monday, November 6, and investigators treated the scene as a triple homicide. Reported scene details included tape residue, an effort to clean parts of the scene with vinegar rather than soap, and the deliberate positioning of one victim’s body—details detectives described as suggestive of a perpetrator who lingered and staged the scene.

Early attention fell on Hal Carter, an attorney who had recently ended a relationship with Julie Grissom; court records say he quickly became a suspect, but investigators determined he was in Atlanta at the time and he was never arrested. Years later, similarities to the Gainesville murders prompted comparisons; investigators reported matching blood-type findings and, ultimately, Danny Rolling admitted responsibility to other inmates and provided a written confession in 2006 claiming sole responsibility for the Shreveport killings. Louisiana authorities said there was little practical reason to prosecute him after his Florida convictions. Does anyone have information about the Grissom family or the events in Shreveport that could shed more light on what happened?