On the night of September 20, 1997, 78-year-old John Henry Sepeda was asleep in his Port Arthur, Texas, home in a room with his wife and grandson when an intruder broke in. The intruder, identified as Elroy Chester, moved through the house, and when Sepeda began to get out of bed to confront the masked man, Chester fired a single shot that killed him. Before fleeing, the intruder took a ring from Sepeda’s wife.

Investigators initially arrested several suspects: five alleged gang members were taken into custody in November 1997, and a grand jury indicted David Lieby, Michael Lieby, and Arthur Jupiter for capital murder in January 1998; those charges were dismissed in February 1998. The murder was later linked to Elroy Chester after his arrest in February 1998 for another killing; Chester confessed to multiple crimes, including Sepeda’s murder, and was later tried and sentenced in relation to those confessions.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember hearing or seeing anything at the Sepeda home the night of September 20, 1997?