On November 30, 1971, two women were found murdered in a beauty shop in Melrose, Florida. One victim was 22-year-old beautician Pat Marr; the other was 38-year-old beautician Bobbie Turner. Both were discovered dead in the same shop.

Their deaths have been linked in reporting to a string of violent crimes attributed to the McCrary-Taylor family, a nomadic group from Texas that carried out robberies, kidnappings, sexual assaults, and murders across several states in the early 1970s. That group targeted women working alone in small businesses, including beauty salons. Members Sherman McCrary and his son-in-law Carl Taylor were later apprehended and convicted in relation to some of the family’s crimes; McCrary died by suicide in prison in 1988. The full extent of the family’s crimes in Florida, and the specific details of the Melrose slayings, remain uncertain.