Ronald Monahan, 25, was found stabbed to death in his Houston apartment on June 25, 1985. The killing was first treated as a burglary gone wrong, but subsequent investigation linked the death to a local group of self‑described Satanists led by 19‑year‑old Harold Glenn Smith. An informant driven by Smith to Monahan’s apartment reported seeing Monahan’s body and later implicated Smith and other cult members in the murder of Dennis Medler, whose mutilated body was found in a cemetery with apparent ritualistic wounds.

Authorities later connected the group to multiple homicides as they expanded the inquiry. In January 1986 Smith, two other teenage boys and a 16‑year‑old girl were arrested and charged with Medler’s murder; Smith was convicted of first‑degree murder and given a life sentence. Does anyone have information about Monahan’s life in Houston or leads about who else might have known him?