In February 1986 the bodies of 24-year-old Sherri Weathers and her two young sons were found in their Talladega, Alabama, apartment after Sherri missed a week of classes at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. Sherri, who was hearing-impaired and a student at the institute, and her sons Chad, age five, and Joey, age four, were discovered together on a bed, loosely covered by a blanket. Autopsies determined Sherri died from strangulation and both boys from ligature strangulation.

The investigation focused on Daniel Lee Siebert, who had been dating Sherri and worked as a set designer at the institute. Evidence at the scene and in a car Siebert abandoned in Kentucky tied him to the killings; he was arrested in Tennessee on September 5, 1986, and confessed to strangling Sherri on the evening of February 19, 1986, then waking and strangling each boy. Siebert was later convicted and received a death sentence for the murders of Sherri, Chad, and Joey.

Does anyone have memories of the Weathers family or information from Talladega in 1986 that could add context to what happened?