On July 31, 1983, 33-year-old Colleen Gill and her four-year-old daughter Tiffany were found beaten to death with a blunt instrument, reported to be a baseball bat or similar weapon, inside their Washington Terrace home in St. Louis’s West End neighborhood. The victims, both Caucasian, were members of a family known locally for owning a hair salon in nearby Des Peres.

Early investigation briefly focused on Colleen’s husband, Thomas Gill, who was treated as a person of interest. Detectives did not develop physical evidence tying him to the killings; he was never arrested or charged and denied involvement. The case went cold as leads dried up.

Years later investigators linked the double homicide to transient killer Tommy Lynn Sells. Witnesses from 1983 described a man fleeing the area who matched Sells’s description, and Sells later gave details about the scene that aligned with those accounts. Authorities closed the file based on his confession and the circumstantial corroboration.

Does anyone remember seeing unusual activity around Washington Terrace in late July 1983 or have information that could still help clarify what happened?