On the evening of Monday, September 21, 2009, 11-year-old Austin Gee was one of five family members found killed in their home in Beason, Illinois. Austin, a student at Chester East Lincoln School, was discovered in the bathroom with severe head injuries described as eight heavy blows that caved in both sides of his skull. The attack also killed his parents, Raymond Rick Gee and Ruth Gee, and two siblings, Justina Constant, 16, and Dillen Constant, 14. The family’s youngest child, three-year-old Tabitha Gee, survived with multiple skull fractures and brain swelling.

Investigators focused on Christopher Harris, the estranged husband of the family’s eldest daughter, after a bloody handprint in the bathroom was matched to him and a distinctive shoe print matched shoes he was later seen wearing in the hospital. A tire iron believed to be the murder weapon and the family computer were recovered; Christopher’s brother Jason Harris initially gave an alibi but later cooperated with detectives. In the immediate aftermath, law enforcement urged residents to lock their doors while the suspect or suspects were sought and no arrests had been announced the day after the killings.

Does anyone who knew the Gee family or lived in Beason at the time have memories or information about that night that could help fill gaps in the timeline?