In April 1979, Carvel A. Faulkner, 58, and his wife Sarah were found murdered inside their Elkridge, Maryland, home. Carvel had been shot in the head and was discovered slumped in front of his bed. Sarah was found on the bed in a pool of blood, with her hands and feet bound and her throat slit. There were no signs of forced entry, and $1,000 was left in plain view, suggesting robbery was not the motive.

Investigators later linked a pattern of violent crimes in the Elkridge area between 1979 and 1989 to a suspect, Vernon Lee Clark, who had occasionally worked for the Faulkners’ poultry feed and sanitation company. Clark was convicted in several other murders after DNA testing became available, but despite DNA testing on evidence from the Faulkner scene, no conviction has resulted in this double homicide. The Faulkners case remains an unsolved cold case.

Does anyone have information about the Faulkners, their business, or Clark’s ties to Elkridge that could help shed light on what happened?