On December 15, 1978, 36-year-old Alice Huling was murdered in her Clearwater, Minnesota home during the early morning while she and her four children slept. The intruder first shot Alice in the kitchen and then went upstairs, fatally shooting 16-year-old Susan, 13-year-old Wayne, and 12-year-old Patti in their beds. Eleven-year-old William survived by hiding and later fleeing to a neighbor’s house for help; he later told investigators he saw a man of medium build, under six feet tall, wearing a stocking cap in the doorway before the shooting, but he could not identify him because of poor visibility.

Alice had been shot and beaten; the scene was described as brutal and deeply disturbing. Four days after the murders, law enforcement arrested Joseph Donald Ture Jr on unrelated stolen-vehicle charges and found a metal bar, a ski mask, and a toy car that were later linked to the Huling case. While incarcerated for other crimes, Ture allegedly confessed to fellow inmates in 1981 and again in 1998, describing nonpublic details of the killings; he was indicted in 1999, convicted in 2000, and his conviction was upheld in 2001.

Does anyone have additional information about the household, the surviving child’s account, or the items tied to the suspect?