Amanda Beth Carr was 15 when she was killed inside her family’s home on Pine Valley Road in Milledgeville, Georgia, during the night of November 6, 1974. Her father, Carswell Hall Carr Sr., had invited a stranger identified as Paul John Knowles into the house; both victims were attacked that night. Carswell was restrained and repeatedly stabbed in the parents’ bedroom. Amanda was attacked separately in her bedroom, strangled with a nylon stocking, and investigators found evidence she had been sexually violated after death.

The house was left ransacked, with mirrors broken, furniture slashed, and rooms in disarray. Knowles fled with Carswell’s clothing, identification, credit cards, cash, and items taken from Amanda, including a Mickey Mouse watch he later gave to a woman. Use of the stolen credit cards, possession of property from the Carr home, and Knowles’s movements through Milledgeville were among the factors investigators cited in attributing the murders to him. Knowles was killed by a law-enforcement agent on December 18, 1974, before any trial. Does anyone have memories of the Carr family or information about that night in Milledgeville?