On November 19, 1997, 19-year-old James Jamie Lucas Smith IV and his coworker John Phillip Mattmiller were found bound and beaten to death during a robbery at Woodson Music & Pawn in Havelock, North Carolina. Police discovered the shop’s back door open during routine checks and recovered that handguns and about $30,000 in jewelry had been stolen.

The slayings were described as brutal; both victims were tied and beaten.

Did anyone who worked at or shopped in Woodson Music & Pawn in 1997 notice suspicious visitors or remember anything unusual around November 19?