Dorothy Derry, 60, was one of four people murdered in a violent home invasion in Barrington Hills, Illinois, on August 4, 1972. The other victims were her sister Marion Corbett, 58; Marion’s husband Paul Corbett, 67; and Marion’s daughter Barbara Boand, 22. Attackers forced the family into a pantry at gunpoint, demanded valuables, and shot all four; a barking family dog was injured during the incident and Boand was shot after she protested.

Authorities described the killings as a wholesale slaughter and believed the suspects, four young Black Vietnam War veterans associated with De Mau Mau, had driven from Chicago seeking victims; the men named in reports are Donald Taylor, Reuben Taylor, Michael Clark, and Nathaniel Burse. The bodies were found that evening by Boand’s brother Anthony when he returned to collect a borrowed car.

Donald Taylor, Reuben Taylor, and Michael Clark were convicted in 1974 and received sentences totaling more than 100 years each; Donald Taylor died in custody in 1991, and Nathaniel Burse was killed in the Lake County jail while awaiting trial on another matter.