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Madalyn Murray O’Hair, a 76-year-old atheist activist, was murdered on September 29, 1995, in San Antonio, Texas. Best known for the 1963 Supreme Court case that ended mandatory Bible readings in public schools and as the founder of American Atheists, she lived and worked in Austin with her son Jon Garth Murray and granddaughter Robin Murray O’Hair. All three disappeared after being kidnapped on August 27, 1995, by three men who posed as delivery workers and took the family to San Antonio.

The kidnappers demanded $1 million and during the weeks that followed Jon was forced to wire $600,000 from a New Zealand account and to purchase gold coins from a San Antonio jeweler, but the victims were not released. On September 29 the three were killed at a La Quinta Inn in San Antonio. Their bodies were moved to Austin, dismembered in a storage unit, placed in barrels, and buried on a remote ranch near Camp Wood, Texas. The crime involved David Roland Waters, Gary Paul Karr, and Danny Fry.

What new details or memories about the O’Hairs, their lives in Austin, or the days around August 27 through late September 1995 could help clarify what happened?